From: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
To: Oleg Verych <olecom@flower.upol.cz>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: sed _s_gnu_alternatives_ (Re: [rft] (g)awk substitution)
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 13:03:32 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200701251303.33607.rob@landley.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070125094051.GA9725@flower.upol.cz>
On Thursday 25 January 2007 4:40 am, Oleg Verych wrote:
> > Your objection is a bit like saying "and don't use cat". I'm saying don't
> > call cat "gcat" when you just mean plain old cat.
>
> No it's not, really. I don't want to see pipes, fork()s, disk seek,
> when task can be done without it. I know, what awk is, and i hope it
> will have its better time.
*shrug* Making the need for "gawk" go away was my goal, and gawk->awk was the
minimal change. If you want more than that, I'm not objecting, just not
personally interested.
I believe "shift 5" is also SUSv3. :)
Rob
--
"Perfection is reached, not when there is no longer anything to add, but
when there is no longer anything to take away." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-01-25 18:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-01-15 21:24 [PATCH] sed s/gawk/awk/ scripts/gen_init_ramfs.sh Rob Landley
2007-01-15 22:11 ` Sam Ravnborg
2007-01-24 0:49 ` Andrew Morton
2007-01-24 17:30 ` Rob Landley
2007-01-24 21:03 ` [rft] (g)awk substitution (Re: [PATCH] sed s/gawk/awk/scripts/gen_init_ramfs.sh) Oleg Verych
2007-01-24 22:44 ` [patch, rft] scripts/gen_initramfs_list.sh: replace gawk with shell, whitespace cleanup Oleg Verych
2007-01-24 23:30 ` [patch, rft] scripts/makelst: replace gawk with shell, update Oleg Verych
2007-01-25 1:51 ` [rft] (g)awk substitution (Re: [PATCH] sed s/gawk/awk/scripts/gen_init_ramfs.sh) Rob Landley
2007-01-25 9:40 ` sed _s_gnu_alternatives_ (Re: [rft] (g)awk substitution) Oleg Verych
2007-01-25 18:03 ` Rob Landley [this message]
2007-01-25 19:14 ` Oleg Verych
2007-01-25 19:38 ` Rob Landley
2007-01-25 21:18 ` Oleg Verych
2007-01-26 17:47 ` Rob Landley
2007-01-26 20:14 ` Oleg Verych
2007-01-27 0:18 ` Tim Schmielau
2007-01-27 6:38 ` scripts/makelst: bc -> shell " Oleg Verych
2007-02-03 11:24 ` David Weinehall
2007-02-03 13:10 ` Oleg Verych
2007-02-03 11:13 ` David Weinehall
2007-02-02 16:36 ` [PATCH] sed s/gawk/awk/ scripts/gen_init_ramfs.sh Adrian Bunk
2007-02-02 21:01 ` Oleg Verych
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