On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 05:22:32PM +0100, Andrew Porter wrote: > > /usr/sbin/mysqld --print-defaults \ > > | tr " " "\n" \ > > | grep -- "--$1" \ > > | tail -n 1 \ > > | cut -d= -f2 > > is harder to read than > > > /usr/sbin/mysqld --print-defaults | > > sed -ne "s/^.*--$1=\\([^ ]\\+\\).*\$/\\1/p" > > Both require knowledge of a particular tools - one only one tool though.
that's not completely true, unless knowledge of sed also implies a good
understanding of posix regular expressions, in which case i wouldn't be
so hasty to claim it was easier to understand.
however, all of this notwithstanding, if someone takes the time to
submit a patch similar to this it will probably be included.
> Of course this would all be so much simpler if we could actually use the
> power of modern shells (post 1993) in init scripts - subprocesses
> wouldn't be required at all....
it is a /bin/bash script, so i suppose bashisms are allowed, provided
that there aren't other reasons christian or i would object to them.
sean
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