python vs awk for simple sysamin tasks

[Steve Lamb]

On 2004-06-03, Roy Smith <roy at panix.com> wrote:
> Neither of these are really tasks well suited to python at all.

    Individually, no.  Combined, yes.

> I'm sure you could replicate this functionality in python using things 
> like os.walk() and os.stat(), but why bother?  The result would be no 
> better than the quick on-liners you've got above. 

    Not true.  The above one liners are two passes over the same data.  With
an appropriate script you could make one pass and get both results.  Sure you
could do that in shell but I'm of the opinion that anything other than one
liners should never be done in shell.

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