On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 03:52:14PM +0200, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> Stefan Hajnoczi <stefa...@redhat.com> writes:
>
> [...]
> > The problem with the POSIX shell string replacement is that the syntax
> > is horrible. I can never remember what ${%}, ${%%}, ${#} and
> > %{##} do. $(basename $QEMU_PROG) is clear (although it doesn't handle
> > spaces in the filename!).
>
> Here's how I cope. # is left of % my keyboard. # matches "on the
> left", % "on the right". #/% are "short" and pick the shortest matching
> pattern. ##/%% are "long" and pick the longest matching pattern.
Nice :).
Stefan
