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| From: | Paul Eggert |
| Subject: | Re: cmp/diff |
| Date: | Sat, 26 Dec 2020 11:12:38 -0800 |
| User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.5.0 |
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.
Looking at that list now, the only obvious tool to remove is egrep, since 'grep -E' subsumes it nowadays.
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