From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
To: Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>, Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org>
Cc: bug-gnulib@gnu.org
Subject: Re: cmp/diff
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 2020 11:12:38 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7b8233d6-76d1-487e-d724-421780fafc88@cs.ucla.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4087542.9Ba499KVGE@omega>
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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-12-26 19:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-12-26 16:24 cmp/diff Simon Josefsson via Gnulib discussion list
2020-12-26 17:32 ` cmp/diff Bruno Haible
2020-12-26 18:34 ` cmp/diff Simon Josefsson via Gnulib discussion list
2020-12-26 18:49 ` cmp/diff Bruno Haible
2020-12-26 19:12 ` Paul Eggert [this message]
2020-12-26 21:55 ` cmp/diff Simon Josefsson via Gnulib discussion list
2020-12-26 23:12 ` cmp/diff Paul Eggert
2020-12-27 0:07 ` cmp/diff Alfred M. Szmidt
2020-12-27 0:23 ` cmp/diff Paul Eggert
2020-12-27 1:05 ` cmp/diff Alfred M. Szmidt
2020-12-27 0:07 ` cmp/diff Alfred M. Szmidt
2020-12-27 0:43 ` egrep, fgrep, and install-info Bruno Haible
2020-12-27 1:12 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2020-12-26 19:31 ` cmp/diff Paul Smith
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