Date: Tue, 12 Nov 1996 14:04:22 +0100 From: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de> To: mark@linus.demon.co.uk (Mark Valentine) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/doc/handbook porting.sgml ports.sgml Message-ID: <199611121304.OAA00453@campa.panke.de> In-Reply-To: <199611120404.EAA23202@janai.thuvia.org> References: <199611120404.EAA23202@janai.thuvia.org>
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Mark Valentine writes: >> From: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de> >> Jordan K. Hubbard writes: >> >> I'm guessing sed, I thought Jordan had a disdain dislike for perl. :-) >> > >> >sed, definitely. I mean, who needs perl when you've already got >> >sed, sh and awk? :-) >> >> Perl is 8 bit clean and can edit binary data. >> >> $ wc /kernel >> 2379 24484 808608 /kernel >> $ perl -npe 's,/sbin/,/SBIN/,g' /kernel | wc >> 2379 24484 808608 /kernel >> $ sed 's,/sbin/,/SBIN/,g' /kernel | wc >> 67 753 29419 > >$ wc /kernel > 3672 44913 1282638 /kernel >$ /usr/gnu/bin/sed 's,/sbin/,/SBIN/,g' /kernel | wc > 3672 44913 1282638 > >Are there any bugs in the perl implementation? Yes, of course. >If there are, do I have >a choice of implementations? ;-) perl4, perl5, perl5.00x Wolfram
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