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On Wednesday 06 April 2005 23:08, Luca Barbato wrote: |
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> If GNU sed is better than the one provided by the system and the |
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> provided one doesn't have other extensions not covered by GNU sed then |
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> the simplest and better solution is replace the native with the improved. |
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I don't like to replace system utilities when they are different from the GNU |
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ones. So i don't like to replace tar with gnu tar, sed with gnu sed, and so |
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on, because they are not completely compatible. |
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If gsed was only a super-set of sed, it could be possible, but it isn't. |
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Scripts may rely on the original behaviour. |
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Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò |
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http://wwwstud.dsi.unive.it/~dpetteno/ |
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