Re: [PATCH][wwwdocs] Update section on enormous source files in htdocs/projects/beginner.html

[Gerald Pfeifer <gerald@pfeifer.com>]

Hi Eric,

On Wed, 24 Nov 2021, Eric Gallager wrote:
> This next patch does more than just removing old stuff: it adds an
> extra sentence to describe a shell command used to generate a list, so
> to verify that I've got the shell command right, I'm asking for a
> review.

-<p>There are several other files in this size range, which I have left
+<p>There are several other files in this size range, which are left
 out because touching them at all is unwise (reload, the Fortran front
 end).  You can try, but I am not responsible for any damage to your
 sanity which may result.</p>

while we are touching this, how about toning the second half of this
paragraph down and moving away from first person?

How about something like "...breaking them up likely may prove rather
difficult" (or similar, happy to leave this to you as native spaker)?


+<p>Note that the list of large files in this section is generated with the
+following shell command, run from the gcc subdirectory:</p>
+
+<pre>
+	du -sh *.{c,h,cc} */*.{c,h,cc} | sort -hr | grep -v fortran | head -n 14
+</pre>

This looks like it does what you want it to do.

(Pulling up the database courses I have given in a previous life, I'd pull 
in the grep before the sort - O(n) filtering before O(n·log n) processing
- but even on my notebook both are instantenous. ;-) )


Please consider the two suggestions above and commit the result; just
share the final patch here (no review required).

Thanks,
Gerald