On Wed, 28 Jul 1999, era eriksson wrote:
Haven't done any timings, but Conventional Wisdom says starting up
shell (rather big one here, mind you) + echo (could be a builtin, of
course) + cat is going to cost more than starting up sed.
This sort of question comes up enough that there ought to be a couple
of new built-in special environment variables:
BODYPREPEND="text to insert at top of body"
BODYAPPEND="text to append to body"
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