Re: sed _s_gnu_alternatives_ (Re: [rft] (g)awk substitution)

Rob Landley
2007-01-25T18:03:53Z

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
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