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charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable l=C3=B6r 2020-12-26 klockan 11:12 -0800 skrev Paul Eggert: > 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: >=20 > 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. Okay, let's wait ten years and revisit that :-) I believe awk will be more of a rarity in the future. > Looking at that list now, the only obvious tool to remove is egrep,=20 > since 'grep -E' subsumes it nowadays. Yes, I think that should be dropped. What about 'install-info'? It is quite GNU-specific. Nothing in gnulib appears to refer to it (except for the make-stds manual..). /Simon --=-Rx/Rg7UDuaBXm/HM+SXu Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iHUEABYIAB0WIQSjzJyHC50xCrrUzy9RcisI/kdFogUCX+exQwAKCRBRcisI/kdF ojEFAP9y8tssrRTIaeNnWBGG3iPDQSd3VUwbxztuqO7YHwqzzgD/SG0TTcmOF2L9 9eDaI65EeFqmzW9HJz3m1UaE6PO3YwQ= =Nmqj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-Rx/Rg7UDuaBXm/HM+SXu--