>> why GNU sed? > >Because BusyBox sed is pretty broken when running complex scripts, sed >is pretty small, and sed features are used almost as much as >shell-script in LEAF/LRP systems, and once again, busybox sed wasn't >around (at least in a usable form) when most of the current >distributions were created. > >If your question was "why sed, instead of awk, grep, or whatever", the >answer is that with full GNU sed and a functional shell, you can >implement most of the behavior of other commands, if required, and sed >is the smallest utility that fits the bill in that regard (yes, awk >would be nicer, but it's many times larger than sed).
Ok, I get the picture. My rant was only about how old ash is, the last change in the code comes from 1999 I think. Following an old phrase, "if it ain't broken, don't fix it!", I guess that from now on, I will leave it that way. ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ leaf-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel
