I'm sure it's faulty Which is why I'm asking for help
My regexes (in it's various forms) produce the output similar to: xorg-fonts-75dpi xorg-fonts xorg-fonts-100dpi ... ... ... and I'm wanting my regex to return the 2nd value, in this example, in this list. The problem is the shell is taking the end anchor $ as the start of a variable, and no matter how I escape it, it seems to never work. I'm sorry for not explaining properly. Maybe the above would help. On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 11:08 PM, Sahil Tandon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tim Judd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I've been trying for a few weeks to try to get this to work, and the > /bin/sh > > keeps snagging the command line before passing it to pkg_info > > > > I'll use a different shell if I need to, but since I got everything > except > > this one thing working, i'd rather keep it in sh > > > > In the shell script, i have a > > pkg_info -qLx "^$PKG-[0-9,._]+$" > > also tried (-X)tended regex instead of the standard rege(-x). > > > > sh keeps erroring out saying various $" isn't a valid variable name, or > > pkg_info doesn't find the anything there. And it does exist. This all > came > > around with me trying to automatically update a bunch of ports. > xorg-fonts > > is outdated, but xorg-fonts-100dpi or xorg-fonts-75dpi isn't. So the > regex > > returns multiple values (as above). I just want the first, hence the > > anchors. > > > > Any ideas on how to get sh to let pkg_info see everything? Various > escaping > > around the end $ just doesn't work. I'll keep working on it, but i'd > like > > to see how you all would suggest getting it to work. > > I am not sure what the problem is, but are you just looking for the > output of "pkg_info -qxL" on the *first* instance of xorg-fonts-*? > > % pkg_info -qL `pkg_info | grep xorg-fonts | head -1 | cut -d\ -f1` > > FWIW, your regexp also looks faulty. > > -- > Sahil Tandon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > [EMAIL PROTECTED]" > _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
