On Sun, 21 Jan 2001, Tomasz Luchowski wrote:
> -               ${SED}  -e "s,@PREFIX@,${PREFIX},g" \
> -                       -e "s,@CC@,${CC},g" \
> -                       -e "s,@CFLAGS@,${CFLAGS},g" \
> -                       < ${WRKSRC}/Makefile > ${WRKSRC}/Makefile.done
> +               ${SED}  -e "s,@PREFIX@,${PREFIX},g" -e "s,@CC@,${CC},g" \
> +                       -e "s,@CFLAGS@,${CFLAGS},g" < ${WRKSRC}/Makefile \
> +                       > ${WRKSRC}/Makefile.done
> 
> These are changes that fredb made to my Makefile.
> I wonder which way is prefered -- shorter (many -e's in one line)
> or more readable and easier to edit (my version, minuses).
> [ I can easily delete one s/ with "dd" in my favourite editor,
> and don't need to modify other ]
> 
> I don't want to complain, I'm just asking.

Personally, I'd go for readbility. But i guess Fred has a reason for what
he does.


 - Hubert

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Hubert Feyrer <hubert.feyrer@informatik.fh-regensburg.de>