I think a program like this belongs in sh-utils, and about a year
ago I sent a suggestion to the upstream maintainer. Since I have
received no reply I suppose they think it's bad idea.
If the Debian maintainer wants to include it, I think I have a
version that would fit nicely with the other sh-utils somewhere.
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