Re: [PATCH] p3400: stop using tac(1)

From: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Date: Oct 7, 2021, 20:42 UTC
Message-ID: <a3377973-4f4a-376a-f02e-94a3b20dd9ad@web.de>
In-Reply-To: <YVyppmEGkNCxZ+5L@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Am 05.10.21 um 21:38 schrieb Jeff King:

> Right, that works. It does introduce an extra awk process per
> invocation, though I doubt that really matters all that much. The diff I
> showed in my earlier response works totally in shell, like the current
> test_seq().

In my mind, test is an external command. Wikipedia [1] says it has been a builtin since the early 80ies, and I couldn't find a shell without it. I wonder where I picked up that outdated assumption -- I'm not actually _that_ old. Time for an update..

René

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test_(Unix)