Le 06/01/2012 04:49, Jeremy Huntwork wrote: > I'm sure whatever you choose to do is perfectly fine for your needs, but > objecting to parameter substitution as being more complicated than piping to > head and then cut is silly. It's simple pattern substitution like you do with > sed in the rest of the book. > > If you really mean that it makes the script less readable, then sure, > possibly. But then your goal is readability and not necessarily simplicity. > At that rate, I'd suggest you add some comments to the script and/or separate > out individual package sections with some white space. > > JH Well, all in all, why not use directly:
ldd --version | head -n1 Works even on (an emulated) RH 6.2... Maybe: ldd --version | head -n1 | cut -d" " -f2- Avoids the confusing "ldd" at the beginning of the line Pierre -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
