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- From: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl,alt.sources
- Subject: Re: An AWK script to check "junk" for newsgroups
- Message-ID: <11548@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
- Date: 22 Feb 91 00:31:04 GMT
-
- In article <u4+nMD@ppcger.ppc.sub.org> Sepp@ppcger.ppc.sub.org (Josef Wolf) writes:
- : dglo@ADS.COM (Dave Glowacki) writes:
- :
- : ] Since, as a rule, EVERY C or shell program posted must be followed up
- : ] by a PERL script, here's my version of NEWJUNK.
- :
- : Well. Fine fine. But what about using standard-tools? Which *IX is
- : _delivered_ with Perl?
-
- Convex's OS. BSD 4.4 will have it. It's included with GNU. Eventually
- everyone will include it, I suspect.
-
- : Now here is my version of NEWJUNK. It could have been better, but older
- : versions of gawk have these ugly memory-leak, so you have to sort out
- : the 'Newsgroups:' lines and pipe it into gawk :-(
-
- Well. Fine fine. But what about using standard-tools? Which *IX is
- _delivered_ with gawk? :-)
-
- : The awk-version will most likely be slower than the C-version and the
- : Perl-Version, but it schould run on most *IX with little modifications.
-
- Right.
-
- On my Vax:
-
- $ awk -f newjunk.awk
- awk -f newjunk
- awk: syntax error near line 6
- awk: illegal statement near line 6
- awk: syntax error near line 11
- awk: illegal statement near line 11
- awk: syntax error near line 12
- awk: illegal statement near line 12
- awk: syntax error near line 15
- awk: illegal statement near line 15
- awk: syntax error near line 16
- awk: illegal statement near line 16
- awk: syntax error near line 19
- awk: illegal statement near line 19
- awk: syntax error near line 20
- awk: illegal statement near line 20
- awk: syntax error near line 27
- awk: bailing out near line 27
-
- On my Sun:
-
- $ nawk -f newjunk.awk
- nawk: empty regular expression
- source line number 51
- context is
- >>> // <<< {
-
-
- Your "standard" tools ain't so standard. :-(
-
- Larry
-