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From: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3]: Replace kernel/timeconst.pl with kernel/timeconst.sh
Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2009 19:36:04 -0600
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To: Ingo Oeser <ioe-lkml@rameria.de>
Cc: Embedded Linux mailing list <linux-embedded@vger.kernel.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>

On Saturday 03 January 2009 06:28:22 Ingo Oeser wrote:
> > +for i in "MSEC 1000" "USEC 1000000"
> > +do
> > +	NAME=$(echo $i | awk '{print $1}')
>
> cut -d' ' -f1  does the same
>
> > +	PERIOD=$(echo $i | awk '{print $2}')
>
> cut -d' ' -f2  does the same

>From a standards perspective 
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/cut.html vs 
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/awk.html is probably 
a wash, but from a simplicity perspective using the tool that _isn't_ its own 
programming language is probably a win. :)

I made the change in the second round of patches I just posted.

Thanks,

Rob