Hi John On Tue, May 01, 2018 at 02:53:46PM -0400, John Ericson wrote:
> +# Physical components of config > +comp1=`echo "$1" | sed 's/^\([^-]*\).*$/\1/'` > +comp2=`echo "$1" | sed 's/^[^-]*-\([^-]*\).*$/\1/'` > +comp3=`echo "$1" | sed 's/^[^-]*-[^-]*-\([^-]*\).*$/\1/'` > +comp4=`echo "$1" | sed 's/^[^-]*-[^-]*-[^-]*-\([^-]*\).*$/\1/'` Can you please rework your patch with something like this, and then we can ditch the nasty sed expressions above completely: IFS="-" read comp1 comp2 comp3 comp4 <<EOF $1 EOF (bash has here-strings which would be nicer still, but they are not portable enough.) Thanks, Ben
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