On Sat, Dec 09, 2006 at 07:04:22PM +0800, Uwe Dippel wrote: > > Thanks Darren, but I'd written this myself faster than it took me to write > the message. I am still sure, that most users, including writers (and > updaters) of the FAQ would profit from this addition. The FAQ is full of > this `arch`, `uname` `machine` and whatnot stuff. > When you read through the cvs chapters, there is always the explicit > OpenBSD_V_n. > > There is a German proverb that expresses something like 'Why make it > simple, when can be done in a complicated way as well ?'
rather than adding bloat to uname(1) (that other OSs aren't going to have), just write a simple function in the script that checks for existance of 'CVS/Tag' - assumes 'HEAD' if missing, otherwise reads it in and knocks the first character off. that's easy to write in a manner such that users of several OSs and various shells could just copy/paste and have it work for them too. -- jared
