Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2008 14:49:39 -0800 From: "Garrett Cooper" <yanefbsd@gmail.com> To: "Sheldon Givens" <sheldon@sigsegv.ca> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Small change to wc Message-ID: <7d6fde3d0812051449s2ada98a7y848afc78caa8d096@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <7d6fde3d0812051448r1581d666v50d162cae348982a@mail.gmail.com> References: <f4ecc0930812051414n17867e1fi80d6ed458e879bde@mail.gmail.com> <7d6fde3d0812051448r1581d666v50d162cae348982a@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 2:48 PM, Garrett Cooper <yanefbsd@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 2:14 PM, Sheldon Givens <sheldon@sigsegv.ca> wrote: >> Hello everyone, >> In the process of migrating the last of a few Linux servers to FreeBSD, we >> ran in to a bit of a snag with one of our scripts when BSD wc didn't have an >> equivalent to the Linux -L. This flag tells wc to keep track of the longest >> line in the input. >> >> Here's a little diff to add this functionality to BSD wc. [..] > What's the plus side of having this? I can accomplish the same with > something like awk without the additional overhead, which would be > guaranteed to be portable. s/overhead/overhead to wc/. > -Garretthelp
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