On Saturday 29 November 2008 05:58:44 Tim Judd wrote:
> In the shell script, i have a
> pkg_info -qLx "^$PKG-[0-9,._]+$"
> also tried (-X)tended regex instead of the standard rege(-x).
pkg_info -qLx "^${PKG}-[0-9,\._]+\$"
-- 1-- -2-
@1: shell evaluates before regex. Use braces so that end of variable is
explicit
@2: this shouldn't be evaluated by the shell, so escape it with a backslash.
It's passed as dollar sign to the command.
Also, I'm relatively sure it needs -X for the + sign, but haven't tested.
--
Mel
Problem with today's modular software: they start with the modules
and never get to the software part.
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