script that generates .tree files

[GNUser]

I think we have a winner.

Hi Rich. Good to hear. I'll be using this version myself

Out of curiosity, how long does this latest version take on your hardware?

Here you go:

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$ time treegen vlc-dev.tcz >/tmp/vlc-dev.tcz.tree
real 0m 0.67s
user 0m 0.40s
sys 0m 0.22sSo 1.86 sec before, 0.67 sec now. Your optimizations help a whole lot: The new version gets the job done in less than half the time, even with the call to gsub.

Thank you for your collaboration with this. Always a pleasure.

[Rich]

Hi GNUser
Beautiful.

Overall, I'd say your script stacks up quite well against the C++ version:

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awk C++
     Size     ~900 bytes      ~25K bytes
Time to generate vlc-dev.tcz.tree     0.67 Secs.      0.31 Secs.

[Paul_123]

For processing hundreds of tree files, I’ll take the speed of C++, but was there a robustness change needed for the repo, related to spaces and/or blank lines?