Messages in this thread | | | From | Rob Landley <> | Subject | Re: [rft] (g)awk substitution (Re: [PATCH] sed s/gawk/awk/scripts/gen_init_ramfs.sh) | Date | Wed, 24 Jan 2007 20:51:32 -0500 |
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On Wednesday 24 January 2007 4:03 pm, Oleg Verych wrote:
> Let me propose you to test this as solution, that need no awk, only shell:
Actually awk is one of the standard Single Unix Specification (version 3) utilities and the kernel build uses it in a number of places, such as arch/alpha/boot/Makefile, drivers/eisa/Makefile, scripts/ver_linux.
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.
> p.s. who is going to make alternative to GNU make ? ;D
Me. Seriously. It's on my todo list, as part of the Firmware Linux project:
http://lwn.net/Articles/215941/
Although as major projects go, it's about fifth down on the list after getting toybox up to speed, writing a proper bash replacement shell, getting tcc to build an unmodified Linux kernel, convincing the uClibc guys to HAVE ANOTHER RELEASE ALREADY (it's been a year and a half, I _sent_ a cake)...
Today, I'm writing a gene2fs that produces streaming output (I.E. it works like tar). It's not done yet...
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