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[bash] History, use perl if installed otherwise awk (#3313)
While awk is POSIX, perl isn't pre-installed on all *nix flavors. This commit eliminates the mandatory dependency on perl by using awk when perl is not available. Related: #3295, #3309, #3310. Test suite passed: * `make error` all test sections 'PASS' * `make docker-test` 215 runs, 1884 assertions, 0 failures, 0 errors, 0 skips. Manually tested in the following environments: * Linux amd64 with bash 3.2, 4.4, 5.2; gawk -P, one true awk, mawk, busybox awk. * macOS Catalina, bash 3.2, macOS awk 20070501. **Performance comparison:** Mawk turned out the fastest, then perl. One true awk's implementation should be the closest to macOS awk. Test data: 230 KB history, 15102 entries, including multi-line and duplicates. Linux, bash 4.4. Times in milliseconds. | Command | Mean | Min | Max | Relative | | :--- | ---: | ---: | ---: | -------: | | `mawk 1.3.4` | 22.9 | 22.3 | 25.6 | **1.00** | | `perl 5.26.1` | 34.3 | 33.6 | 35.1 | 1.49 | | `one true awk 20221215` | 41.9 | 40.6 | 46.3 | 1.83 | | `gawk 5.1.0` | 46.1 | 44.4 | 50.3 | 2.01 | | `busybox awk 1.27.0` | 64.8 | 63.2 | 70.0 | 2.82 | **Other Notes** A bug affects bash, which fails restoring a saved multi-line history entry as a single entry. Bug fixed in version 5.0.[^1] While developing this PR I discovered two unsubmitted issues affecting the current perl script. The output stream ends with `$'\n\0000'` instead of `$'\0000'`. Because of this, the script does not deduplicate a duplicated entry located at the end of the history list; therefore fzf displays two identical (not necessarily adjacent) entries. A minor point about the first issue is that the top fzf entry ends with a dangling line feed symbol, which is visible in the terminal. [^1]: https://github.com/bminor/bash/blob/ec8113b9861375e4e17b3307372569d429dec814/CHANGES#L1511 To enable: `shopt -s cmdhist lithist; HISTTIMEFORMAT='%F %T '`.
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