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Re: How do I determine the existence (or non-existence) of a file from a
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: How do I determine the existence (or non-existence) of a file from an AWK script? |
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Tue, 11 Apr 2023 08:36:32 +0300 |
> Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2023 16:55:27 -0400
> From: "Andrew J. Schorr" <aschorr@telemetry-investments.com>
> Cc: help-gawk@gnu.org
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> Here are a couple of efficient solutions that don't involve running a child
> process.
Thanks, I'm quite sure such a solution is preferable in this case,
since running a program first needs to find a program that would be
available on all the supported platforms, whereas the programs
suggested in this thread up until now exist only on some platforms.