On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 2:48 PM, Garrett Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 2:14 PM, Sheldon Givens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hello everyone, >> In the process of migrating the last of a few Linux servers to FreeBSD, we >> ran in to a bit of a snag with one of our scripts when BSD wc didn't have an >> equivalent to the Linux -L. This flag tells wc to keep track of the longest >> line in the input. >> >> Here's a little diff to add this functionality to BSD wc.
[..] > What's the plus side of having this? I can accomplish the same with > something like awk without the additional overhead, which would be > guaranteed to be portable. s/overhead/overhead to wc/. > -Garrett _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
