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Merge "Update shell and utilities doc on the use of dd and grep."

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@ -18,11 +18,9 @@ the system), so although this was the beginning of the end of toolbox it
(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,