applet-request: expand

[Alfred Zastrow]

Denis Vlasenko schrieb:
> On Sunday 05 August 2007 18:40, Alfred Zastrow wrote:
>> Hello list,
>>
>> glibc-2.6.1 compiles fine by using most of the applets of busybox-1.6.1,
>> but "expand" of coreutils is still missing:
>>
>> ----------snip----------------
>> sed -e 's,[{}],@&,g'				\
>> 	    -e 's,/\*\(@.*\)\*/,\1,g'			\
>> 	    -e 's,/\*  *,/* @r{,g' -e 's,  *\*/,} */,'	\
>> 	    -e 's/\(@[a-z][a-z]*\)@{\([^}]*\)@}/\1{\2}/g'\
>> 	    examples/stpcpy.c | expand > stpcpy.c.texi.new
>> /bin/sh: line 4: expand: command not found
>> make[2]: *** [stpcpy.c.texi] Error 127
>> make[2]: Leaving directory `/build/glibc-2.6.1/manual'
>> make[1]: *** [manual/subdir_install] Error 2
>> make[1]: Leaving directory `/build/glibc-2.6.1'
>> make: *** [install] Fehler 2
>> ----------snap----------------
>>
>> Is there any chance to get this in?
> 
> I read the expand manpage. I'd say it's not that hard. Wanna try? ;)

Yes, please.

My 1st thought was to create a shell wrapper with `tr`, but a more 
professional solution (without patching the source) would be much more 
nicer.

Regards
Alfred