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

[Rob Landley]

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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