OT: presence of strings and grep on other OSes

[Christopher Browne]

On 9/16/05, Alex Beamish <talexb-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On 9/16/05, Byron L. Sonne <blsonne-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > Hey All,
> > 
> > Not sure where else to turn, so I thought I'd ask you folks. I'm looking
> > to dig up information about how much I can rely on the presence of
> > strings and grep being present on some of the other unices out there, 
> > such as AIX, HPUX, DGUX, etc. Older versions too. In some cases, egrep
> > is present and grep is not.
> > 
> > If anyone has any info, I'd love to hear it.
> 
>  You may be able to access busybox, the "Swiss Army Knife of Embedded
> Linux".

And we would expect to find busybox on a DGUX system precisely why???
Or on a Harris Semiconductor CX/UX system?  All of which predate Linux
being of particular interest...

This is the sort of thing commonly accomodated via using autoconf to
search through various forms of different variations of common Unix
tools to see what is actually available.

I've seen these sorts of things being evaluated by the autoconf
configuration for Slony-I and PostgreSQL...
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