[Toybox] awk-removal-patch (was: Looking at nl)

Bastian Bittorf bittorf at bluebottle.com
Mon May 27 23:11:18 PDT 2013


* Rob Landley <rob at landley.net> [28.05.2013 07:51]:
> To build a self-bootstrapping system? Yes, autoconf and the gcc build
> are full of awk.

just did a 'git grep awk' in autoconf, and it's full of
"echo $bla | awk '{print $3}'" - no serious scripting is done
and this should be replaceable with sh calls:

set -- $bla; echo $3

or a sh-function to avoid arg-variable mixups.

i will look into GCC later 8-) bye, bastian



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