Date: Tue, 12 Nov 1996 03:46:22 +0100 From: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: obrien@NUXI.com (David E. O'Brien), asami@freefall.freebsd.org (Satoshi Asami), CVS-committers@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-all@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-share@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/doc/handbook porting.sgml ports.sgml Message-ID: <199611120246.DAA01587@campa.panke.de> In-Reply-To: <5446.847751056@time.cdrom.com> References: <199611112222.OAA22228@relay.nuxi.com> <5446.847751056@time.cdrom.com>
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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
q.e.d.
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