Re: Why we program in scsh

[michael shiplett <walrus@ans.net>]

Olin Shivers <shivers@lambda.ai.mit.edu> writes:

> Every now and then, a friend of mine sends me choice bits of Unix
> scripting which I occasionally translate into scsh for comparison.

> ;;; Copy IN to OUT, prefixing each line with a timestamp,

[awk and scsh exampes omitted]

The interesting question isn't why the close() is necessary, it's why
your friend doesn't use GNU awk, which makes the exercise into a
one-liner and does not require an external program.

    gawk '{print strftime("%b %e %T"), $0}'

michael