> I am not sure I understand the implications of the piping it to the
> insert
> routine.
It's a double-edged sword. Invoking it is as simple as adding a line to a
conf file, while developing it may turn out to be tricky. At least make
sure you examine output of ps ax to see how much CPU time it uses.
And if you pipe it to a script, you'll have an interpreter loaded and
sitting there wasting your RAM.
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