On Mon, Aug 26, 2019 at 4:51 PM Bart Van Assche <bvanass...@acm.org> wrote:
> On 8/26/19 12:59 PM, Bill Fenner wrote:
> > Just as a personal preference, I like to use "awk" instead of grep|... -
> > "awk '/NSF_WW/ {print $1}' $tmpf" gives the same result and doesn't care
> > about the presence or absence of the semicolon - but, I don't know about
> > Windows: if grep and sed are available, is awk?
>
> Hi Bill,
>
> The number of platforms supported by Net-SNMP is large. Each of these
> platforms comes with its own version of grep, sed and awk. Cygwin, MinGW
> and MinGW64 include GNU versions of grep, sed and awk so these platforms
> are not my biggest worry. I'm more worried about *BSD, Solaris and AIX.
> So my preference here is to be conservative and keep the changes as
> small as possible.
>
awk was available a surprisingly long time ago ("The AWK Programming
Language" was published in 1988), but you're right that less churn is
probably safer.
Bill
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