[PD] manipulation of text files - grep - shell - coll

IOhannes m zmoelnig zmoelnig at iem.at
Sat Jan 19 10:45:23 CET 2008


robcanning wrote:
> Frank Barknecht wrote:
>> Hallo,
>> robcanning hat gesagt: // robcanning wrote:
>>
> i have been using [shell] to echo "$1">>"write this text to a file" but 
> i am finding it very slow (between 20-30ms) to write one line - i am 
> quite happy working with this method but am finding it way too slow - an 
> tricks on how to speed up the shell? - seems strange that is so slow.

shell is fast, but it takes long to start it up.
whenever you send a command, a new shell environment is created.

for alternative solutions with running "outside" programs, i once 
proposed a "server" that communicates with Pd via pdsend/receive on this 
list.

for appending lines to a file, you can use zexy's  [fwriteln].

this doesn't solve your problem of grep/sed/awk though.

gfma.dr
IOhannes




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