Mail Archives: djgpp/1998/07/12/12:33:18
On Fri, 10 Jul 1998, Gerhard Gruber wrote:
> I looked into the FAQ and it there is an entry that said that filnnn?.zip
> holds various unix commands that are important for running makefiles
> and other shellscripts. I thought that downloading this I get all
> the commands (or the most important ones) in one package. But every
> time I want to make somethign with the shell I have to see that
> annoying "xxx command not found".
Please note that the FAQ says this not only about Fileutils, but also
about Textutils, Sh-utils, Grep, and other packages. And the entry
for Bash says this:
If you install `bash', you should also install auxiliary
utilities (Fileutils, Textutils, Sh-utils, Grep, Diffutils,
Findutils, Sed and Gawk) as these are usually invoked from
many shell scripts and Makefiles.
So Fileutils are clearly NOT enough.
> I wonder
> why not putting all the commands into a single package. I think that sed,
> make, cat, etc, are not THAT big to distribute them in seperate packages and
> if there is an update than there could be made a package with that single
> command. I think it is rather annoying when you want to work and every time
> you get started, you see that there is still something missing.
Just install all of the above, and you'll be fine. IMHO it doesn't
make sense to lump all of those programs into a single package,
neither is it wise to leave out some of them, since there's no easy
way of knowing which ones will be needed by the next shell script you
run.
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