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Commit 62204006 authored by Tao Bao's avatar Tao Bao
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Update shell and utilities doc on the use of dd and grep. 

We have moved away from BSD dd and grep, which is also shown in the
section for Android Q.

Test: N/A
Change-Id: I13484879e697a1cf2c8b82d7e28a167cb34c00fa
parent 158dd05b

shell_and_utilities/README.md

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(a) didn't stand out given all the other systems-level changes and (b)

in Marshmallow we changed direction and started the move to toybox.



Not everything is provided by toybox, though. We currently still use

the BSD dd and grep (because the toybox versions are still unfinished),

and for the bzip2 command-line tools we use the ones that are part of

the bzip2 distribution. The awk added in Android P is Brian Kernighan's

"one true" awk.

Not everything is provided by toybox, though. For the bzip2 command-line tools

we use the ones that are part of the bzip2 distribution. The awk added in

Android P is Brian Kernighan's "one true" awk.



The lists below show what tools were provided and where they came from in

each release starting with Gingerbread. This doesn't tell the full story,