Re: Counting words, fast!

[Greg Wooledge]

On Tue, Mar 16, 2021 at 05:31:41PM -0500, Jesse Hathaway wrote:
> I was following what I took as the spirit of the constraints:
> 
> https://benhoyt.com/writings/count-words/#problem-statement-and-constraints
> 
> which don't allow anything but a language's standard library.

One might argue that when writing a shell script, the POSIX utilities
are the "standard library".  They are *meant* to be used.  The shell's
built-in feature set is severely limited *because* it's designed to
use these tools to do the heavy lifting.