On Sat, Nov 17, 2007 at 05:33:27PM +0100, Andreas Mohr wrote: > > # strip EXTRAVERSION to just a number (drop leading '.' and trailing > additions) > EXTRAVER= > if [ x$EXTRAVERSION != "x" ] > then > >>> [l.207] if [ ${EXTRAVERSION:0:1} == "." ]; then > EXTRAVER=${EXTRAVERSION:1} > else > EXTRAVER=$EXTRAVERSION > fi > EXTRAVER=${EXTRAVER%%[[:punct:]]*} > #echo "$PNAME: changing EXTRAVERSION from $EXTRAVERSION to $EXTRAVER" > fi > > part, which the sed expression (moderately successfully) tried to > take care of.
You don't need a sed expression for that. In fact the inner if clause can be replaced by the following line: EXTRAVER=${EXTRAVERSION#.} Cheers, -- Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/ Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/