Date: Tue, 12 Nov 1996 04:04:58 +0000 From: mark@linus.demon.co.uk (Mark Valentine) To: hackers@freebsd.org, wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/doc/handbook porting.sgml ports.sgml Message-ID: <199611120404.EAA23202@janai.thuvia.org> In-Reply-To: Wolfram Schneider's message of Nov 12, 3:46am
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> From: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de>
> Date: Tue 12 Nov, 1996
> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/doc/handbook porting.sgml ports.sgml
> 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? If there are, do I have
a choice of implementations? ;-)
Mark.
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