Re: list of portable tools

[Paul Eggert]

address@hidden (Karl Berry) writes:

>> POSIX prohibits the use of NUL in Awk input
>> files, so portable scripts can't assume it.
>
> Sure, but in the particular case of bootstrapping gnu packages, if gawk
> works, that seems pretty sufficient to me?

Ah, sorry, I didn't realize the context was bootstrapping; I thought
it was installing.  For bootstrapping, assuming gawk would be OK, but
in that case assuming 'fold' and 'cut' is OK too, no?