Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason [off-list ref] writes:
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+if test -n "$missing_prereq"
+then
+ unique_missing_prereq=$(
+ echo $missing_prereq |
+ tr -s "," "\n" |
+ grep -v '^$' |
+ sort -u |
+ paste -s -d ',')
What is paste? Some out-of-tree debugging utility?
https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/paste.html
Don't feel bad for not knowing it. I usually do not use cut or paste
myself and I had to look it up the other day while reviewing the RFC
phase of this series.
I am not sure '\n' is a good idea from portability perspective. I
thought I wrote '\012' in the illustration in my review?