Re: Shell script cleanups/style changes?

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Aug 3, 2007, 07:11 UTC
Message-ID: <7vir7xozxs.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <857iodxyrc.fsf@lola.goethe.zz>

David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:

> ... For autoconf, it is fine to call sed (and you would probably not
> believe how small the portable language subset for sed is) all the
> time.  Performance is not an issue.  For normal user commands, this is
> different.

Wow, you made me recall a painful past for myself. AIX's sed was so bad that I had to send in a few bugfixes to autoconf to work it around. I do not know if I should feel happy to find somebody to commiserate with...

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