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Re: ifconfig -l feature

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Old 02-22-2008, 12:33 PM
Damien Miller
 
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Default Re: ifconfig -l feature

On Thu, 22 Jun 2006, Brad Davis wrote:

> For those of us who use OpenBSD to create "semi-embedded" networked systems,
> adding awk or sed or grep or cut or tr to an image that must include ifconfig
> (or a stripped down ifconfig) isn't always acceptable. "Disk" space isn't
> always free.


please.

[djm@fuyu djm]$ ls -l `which sed`
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root bin 26596 Jun 7 22:47 /usr/bin/sed

If your embedded image is so impoverished that you can't fit sed, then
it is unlikely that you will be able to write meaningful shellscripts
anyway.

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