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Re: cmp/diff
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Simon Josefsson |
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Re: cmp/diff |
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Sat, 26 Dec 2020 22:55:15 +0100 |
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lör 2020-12-26 klockan 11:12 -0800 skrev Paul Eggert:
> On 12/26/20 10:49 AM, Bruno Haible wrote:
> > > It would be nice to reduce that set of tools.
> > Well, both 'cmp' and 'diff' are part of POSIX:
>
> Even awk is on that list, and it's much fancier than cmp or diff. And
> I wouldn't support removing awk either, as it's a handy tool in
> Makefiles when the shell isn't up to a text-processing task.
Okay, let's wait ten years and revisit that :-)
I believe awk will be more of a rarity in the future.
> Looking at that list now, the only obvious tool to remove is egrep,
> since 'grep -E' subsumes it nowadays.
Yes, I think that should be dropped.
What about 'install-info'? It is quite GNU-specific. Nothing in
gnulib appears to refer to it (except for the make-stds manual..).
/Simon
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- cmp/diff, Simon Josefsson, 2020/12/26
- Re: cmp/diff, Bruno Haible, 2020/12/26
- Re: cmp/diff, Simon Josefsson, 2020/12/26
- Re: cmp/diff, Bruno Haible, 2020/12/26
- Re: cmp/diff, Paul Eggert, 2020/12/26
- Re: cmp/diff,
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- Re: cmp/diff, Paul Eggert, 2020/12/26
- Re: cmp/diff, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2020/12/26
- Re: cmp/diff, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2020/12/26
- Re: cmp/diff, Paul Eggert, 2020/12/26
- Re: cmp/diff, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2020/12/26
- Re: egrep, fgrep, and install-info, Bruno Haible, 2020/12/26
- Re: egrep, fgrep, and install-info, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2020/12/26
- Re: cmp/diff, Paul Smith, 2020/12/26