From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Dec 31 09:20:34 1994 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id JAA18423 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 31 Dec 1994 09:20:34 -0800 Received: from godzilla.zeta.org.au (godzilla.zeta.org.au [203.2.228.34]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id JAA18416 for ; Sat, 31 Dec 1994 09:20:25 -0800 Received: (from bde@localhost) by godzilla.zeta.org.au (8.6.9/8.6.9) id EAA01559; Sun, 1 Jan 1995 04:17:38 +1100 Date: Sun, 1 Jan 1995 04:17:38 +1100 From: Bruce Evans Message-Id: <199412311717.EAA01559@godzilla.zeta.org.au> To: bde@zeta.org.au, jkh@time.cdrom.com Subject: Re: sed bugs Cc: dgy@seagull.rtd.com, freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk >> Most basic gnu utilities are clearly superior. I miss having a cp that >> preserves symlinks, a mv that works across file systems in all cases, >> a `locate' that supports multiple databases, ... >Well, then by all means campaign for them and try to get them adopted! I really want ours to be superior (and for everything to have a consistent) interface. This should be possible for simple utilities (cp, mv, ...) but I'm not sure what to do with things like sed and sh. Gnu sed has always been quite slow despite using fancy regex algorithms. Bruce