[GRASS-dev] Re: missing awk in WinGRASS

[Michael Barton]

On Jan 23, 2008, at 6:28 PM, Glynn Clements wrote:

> The longer-term solution is to abandon Bourne shell in favour of a
> popular cross-platform interpreted language (i.e. Python). Apart from
> making it easier to write portable scripts, it would eliminate the
> need to use external utilities (sed, awk, bc, etc) for simple tasks
> (e.g. having to invoke awk or bc to perform floating-point
> arithmetic).

I definitely agree, though recognize the amount of work that will be  
to translate all GRASS scripts.

Michael
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