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Re: Trimming priority:standard



On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 06:16:47PM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote:
> And perl, which has the advantage of an '-e' switch.
> 
> Or [m]awk, which is even Required (is there still a reason for that?).

AWK is mentioned in the Single UNIX Specification as one of the
mandatory utilities of a Unix operating system.

Moreover, we made perl to be essential. As James Troup once said,
"to not to do it also for good old awk would be criminal".

https://lists.debian.org/debian-policy/1998/02/msg00180.html


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