Re: Shell script cleanups/style changes?

David Kastrup [off-list ref] writes:

... For autoconf, it is fine to call sed (and you would probably not
believe how small the portable language subset for sed is) all the
time.  Performance is not an issue.  For normal user commands, this is
different.

Wow, you made me recall a painful past for myself.  AIX's sed
was so bad that I had to send in a few bugfixes to autoconf to
work it around.  I do not know if I should feel happy to find
somebody to commiserate with...