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Re: sed/${SED} and pax/${PAX}



 >>          Calling the commands by their plain name instead of the macros
 >>          is only available in the {pre,do,post}-* targets. For all other
 >>          targets, you should still use the macros.

> This seems confusing.  I would rather see consistiency.

Just IMHO - too much non-alphabetic symbols like $ { } [ ] ( ) % @
etc.  makes the program ugly and hard to read. Using plain cp/pax
etc. looks much better provided that these names refer to the good
real programs and this should be garanteed (and it is AFAIU).

-- 
Best regards, Aleksey Cheusov.



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