[TUHS] Seeking wisdom from Unix Greybeards

On 11/26/20 4:23 PM, Larry McVoy via cctalk wrote: As indicated elsewhere the code generating the output (via print(f) statements) is written in (m)awk. I'm not aware of a good / convenient / nice / pretty / shiny interface between awk and tput, save for shelling out via system(...), which seems less than graceful. I will evaluate the possibility of shelling out via system(...) to tput to get the proper string sequences. There are only about 10 different strings, so a BEGIN{...} could conceptually retrieve the output of tput, store it in variables that are subsequently used in the main body and the END{...}. Shelling / system(...) thousands of times seems less than ideal, no matter ho fast the CPU is. It's just wasteful. -- Grant. . . . unix || die