On 12/26/20 10:49 AM, Bruno Haible wrote:
It would be nice to reduce that set of tools.Well, both 'cmp' and 'diff' are part of POSIX:
Even awk is on that list, and it's much fancier than cmp or diff. And I wouldn't support removing awk either, as it's a handy tool in Makefiles when the shell isn't up to a text-processing task.
Looking at that list now, the only obvious tool to remove is egrep, since 'grep -E' subsumes it nowadays.
