Google's indexing of the OEIS

[Michele Dondi]

On Wed, 5 Jan 2005, N. J. A. Sloane wrote:

> Some of the suggestions were:
>
>   ls | egrep '^oeis' | ...
>
>   ls | grep oeis | ...
>
>   find -name "a*" -prune | ...
>
> and "xargs" is the command that I would use myself.

The problem is exactly with xargs. Granted: it's a fantastic tool, but if 
the list passed to it is huge, then you may run into troubles. The best 
solution IMHO is to avoid it altogether (it only takes a few more 
keyestrokes and adds much flexibility) and read line by line. I do it all 
the time, when chances are that the list is too big (well, when I write 
shell scripts, that is, which is rare after all, since I mostly write 
Perl scripts nowadays).


Michele
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