[Gllug] Stripping whitespace in bash script

Richard Jones rich at annexia.org
Sun Aug 13 09:55:40 UTC 2006


On Sun, Aug 13, 2006 at 12:03:33AM +0100, Nix wrote:
> On Sat, 12 Aug 2006, Richard Jones moaned:
> > Someone I know wrote an entire web-based bug tracking system ...
> > 
> > ... in awk.
> 
> A *user* of GNU awk's networking facilities?
> 
> (Is this the first?)

I think he wrote it as CGI scripts, so no networking, only
stdin/stdout required.  Writing an entire web server in awk ... now
that would be truly horrific.

Rich.

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