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

Oleg Verych
2007-01-25T21:09:46Z

On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 02:38:02PM -0500, Rob Landley wrote:
> On Thursday 25 January 2007 2:14 pm, Oleg Verych wrote:
> > > I believe "shift 5" is also SUSv3. :)
> >
> > If you have tested, please send ack or nack to us.
>
> I have not. I tested the one I sent. Today I'm at a different location than
> that test environment. All I can try it on here is Ubuntu, and so could you
> just as easily.
>
> As I said, I'm not particularly interested in a more intrusive solution
> solving a problem I haven't actually seen. I don't see any obvious reason
> why it wouldn't work, and yes it would probably also solve my problem, but I
> still don't see why you think it's "better" than the three byte fix.

Ehhh. "I'm not guilty" issue. Well, fine ;)

If your current system is IA-32, or you have access to one, would you
like to test scripts/makelst for me, as i'm seeing `bc' there. But my
system have not one, i would like to replace it with shell or awk or
whatever. TIA.

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