[H-GEN] Shell script problem.

A Bruce In The Land Of The Bruces brucec at humbug.org.au
Thu Jun 4 21:42:06 EDT 1998


On Fri, 5 Jun 1998, Byron Ellacott wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 05, 1998 at 11:30:12AM +1000, A Bruce In The Land Of The Bruces wrote:
> > lowest="`cat $input | sort -nk 2 | grep $lowestexp | head -n 1`"
> in the interests of optimization, the grep should be done first, so as
> to not sort irrelevant data

True.  However invoking another shell in the middle is probably worse ;) 

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Bruce.


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