On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 04:12:56PM -0400, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > At 10:57 AM -0400 9/7/06, John Baldwin wrote: > >On Wednesday 06 September 2006 21:15, Julian Elischer wrote: > > > > >> perl is not lightweight to install on a machine. > >> have you seen how much crap gets installed when you add perl? > >> > >> lightweight is adding 100 instructions or so to 'date'. > >> or adding the strftime instruction to awk (as it is in gawk) > > > >Why not install the gawk port on the machines you need this on > >rather than perl and use gawk then? It doesn't look to be that > >heavyweight of a port. > > It seems reasonable to me to add a strftime() (and maybe a few other > features) to our base-system awk. But look at what happens if we > install gawk: > > -r-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 115732 May 29 21:01 /usr/bin/awk* > -r-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 1201108 Sep 7 15:39 /usr/local/bin/gawk* xor# ls -l `which gawk` -r-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 225232 Sep 7 16:40 /usr/local/bin/gawk xor# ls -l `which awk` -r-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 123260 May 16 13:58 /usr/bin/awk Kris
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