Re: [patch] acgeneral.m4 (dirname usage)

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Jul  6, 2000, Martin Wilck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I think "!" after a sed address expression is not portable -
> actually, it seems to work only with GNU sed.

Thanks.  How about this, then:

al=`echo $dir | sed 
's%^\(..*/[^/][^/]*\)//*$%\1%;s%^\(.[^/]*\)//*$%\1%;s%[^/]*$%%;s%^\(..*/[^/][^/]*\)//*$%\1%;s%^\(.[^/]*\)//*$%\1%'`

It works with Solaris' sed, and is significant more complicated
because of some lossage in it.

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