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Date:      Fri, 25 Aug 2000 11:09:13 +0100
From:      Paul Richards <paul@originative.co.uk>
To:        Mark Ovens <marko@freebsd.org>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Request for review/comments - new option for uname(1)
Message-ID:  <39A645C9.3A68B0CD@originative.co.uk>
References:  <20000809005929.K250@parish> <20000809143344.L29987@argon.gryphonsoft.com> <20000810003858.D251@parish>

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Mark Ovens wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Aug 09, 2000 at 02:33:44PM -0400, Will Andrews wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 09, 2000 at 12:59:29AM +0100, Mark Ovens wrote:
> > > Is there any reason why this is unacceptable and could not be committed?
> >
> > Because it can be done with an awk/sed script?
> >
> 
> I'll forget about it then. I only did it because I was fed up with
> manually editing the output so it was tidier in e-mails and PRs. Like
> I said, it's not important.

I think this might be one of those rare cases where adding another
option is more efficient than using tools. Running awk/sed to correct
the formatting is overkill when a few printfs in the code would do it
much more efficiently.

Paul.


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