On 2024/10/23 16:25, Florian Obser wrote:
> On 2024-10-23 13:10 +01, Stuart Henderson <stu@spacehopper.org> wrote:
> > Ugh, I've just looked at the script, have they not heard of perl?!
> 
> Why would you do that? That sounds unpleasant.
> 
> And no, they probably have not heard of perl, hence the rewrite in
> JavaScript...

I suppose the javascript version doesn't need to detect whether gawk
is available, etc. :)

(btw if you have gawk installed, make sure it either also works with
base awk, or add a RUN_DEPENDS).