On 1/29/07, Bruce Dubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dan Nicholson wrote: > > On 1/28/07, Alexander E. Patrakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Tushar Teredesai wrote: > >>> cat /proc/version | head -n1 | cut -d" " -f1-3,5-7 > > > > Pet peeve. Don't use cat to create input streams when the shell is > > perfectly capable on it's own with <. > > vs > > > sed -n 's/.*gcc version \([^() ]*\)[() ].*/\1/p;q' < /proc/version > > >From an educational view, what's wrong with showing a different way of > doing things. > > Actually Tush's version above is much clearer to me than your sed, > although I don't think the head -n1 is needed (it may be in some cases, > but not for my systems).
OK, but it still needs to be fixed to work on Debian. Here's the output from Alexander's version string: [ 5:28 PM [EMAIL PROTECTED] cat foo | head -n1 | cut -d" " -f1-3,5-7 Linux version 2.6.18-3-686 2.6.18-7) ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc It might be best to cat the whole file like he mentioned unless you want to have a much more heavy duty parser. -- Dan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
