On Tue, 29 Aug 2000, Russell Davies generated:
>IMO, it's better (and less effort) to adopt an approach that works
>everywhere, then you'll never be nastily surprised. You can't install
>fileutils on every unix box in the world (a lot which aren't running
>Linux).
So what's stopping you reading the manpage for the command and modifying
your script when it blows up?
Like you said, you can often merge commands to _make_ them do what you
want, but why bother when your primary target is a GNU utils based
machine? Sure, when (if) you move to another platform, you'll quite
probably have to modify your script(s), but I don't see this as a big
issue. Make it work when you need it to work, don't waste your time
making compensations for situations you don't have to face.
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