On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 06:16:47PM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > And perl, which has the advantage of an '-e' switch. > > Or [m]awk, which is even Required (is there still a reason for that?).
AWK is mentioned in the Single UNIX Specification as one of the mandatory utilities of a Unix operating system. Moreover, we made perl to be essential. As James Troup once said, "to not to do it also for good old awk would be criminal". https://lists.debian.org/debian-policy/1998/02/msg00180.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140916003146.ga9...@cantor.unex.es
