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From: lbr@holos0.uucp (Len Reed)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: 'awk' test for file existance fails with nawk and gawk
Message-ID: <1991Feb27.165038.4118@holos0.uucp>
Date: 27 Feb 91 16:50:38 GMT
References: <1991Feb25.172540.15875@uvaarpa.Virginia.EDU>
Organization: Holos Software, Inc., Atlanta, GA
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In article <1991Feb25.172540.15875@uvaarpa.Virginia.EDU> tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU writes:
>
>Well, you could use perl to test if all of the files are present.... no,
>wait....  :-)

This seems to be an excellent idea.  You'd have to have an awk fall-back
mechanism, of course, but Configure is run far more often on machines
with [an earlier version of] perl already installed than on those
without any perl.  (Think patches.)  Even the oldest perls should
handle the rudimentary pattern matching needed for this task and give
consistent results, which is more than one can say for the various
flavors of awk.
-- 
Len Reed
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