Re: gratuitous use of echo?

["Jerry Feldman-2" <user=4@nabble.blu.org>]

 On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 16:03:22 -0500 
Ben Eisenbraun <[hidden email]> wrote: 

> On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 03:04:47PM -0500, John Abreau wrote: 
> > You something other than 
> > 
> >    someprogramthatproducesoutput | awk | sed | etc? 
> > 
> > What conditions make the above insufficient? 
> 
> Typically the output is from some process that has a lot of overhead 
> that I don't want to spawn multiple times. 
> 
> E.g. running system_profiler on a G4 Mac grinds the CPU for a few seconds, 
> and it outputs blocks of text, so I grab the block, stuff it into a 
> variable and then I can chop it into useful pieces without having to 
> run the command again. 
> 
> I could do this with a temporary file, but I avoid temp files as much as 
> possible.