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------- Additional Comments From sobukus AT sourcemage.org  2007-06-03 04:58 
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Just wanted to note that I cannot find /bin/awk in FHS, either.
also I can find /bin/grep here... but that's not from the (current) spell, 
apparently - perhaps I once just copied it...

Thing is, does awk have more right to be in /bin than grep?
Is there a sane way do do it without any of those?
Well, a replacement without special dependency (like bash3 regex) would be 
something old-fashioned like this in C:

#include <string.h>

/*
 simple inverse grep replacement for simple strings in simple strings
 returns 0 if argument 1 is not found inside argument 2, else -1
*/

int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
 int i;
 int ret = -1;
 if(argc == 3 && (strstr(argv[2], argv[1])) == NULL) ret = 0;

 return ret;
}

init.d could install this as /sbin/nogrep or whatever and

grep -vq '/etc/init[.]d' /proc/$i/cmdline

could be replaced by

nogrep /etc/init.d $(cat /proc/$i/cmdline).

At least that would be consequent and would allow awk to go out of /bin, too, 
when we want to be strict about FHS there.
Of course there is the question if it's smart to install an additional 
program just to not install a program in /bin, but at least it's a really 
tiny one...

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