On Sat, 22 Mar 2014, Julian Andres Klode wrote: > On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 02:26:34PM +0100, Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn wrote: > > May I suggest a replacement for: > > > > list="$(${DPKG} -l | awk '/^ii[ ]+(linux|kfreebsd|gnumach)-image-[0-9]/ && > > $2 !~ /-dbg$/ { print $2 }' | sed -e > > 's#\(linux\|kfreebsd\|gnumach\)-image-##')" > > > > Either of these: > > > > list=$($DPKG -l | sed -rne > > '/^ii[[:blank:]]+((linux|kfreebsd|gnumach)-image-([0-9][^[:blank:]]+))[[:blank:]].*/{s//\3/;/-dbg$/d;p}') > > list=$($DPKG -l | sed -ne > > '/^ii[[:blank:]]\+\(\(linux\|kfreebsd\|gnumach\)-image-\([0-9][^[:blank:]]\+\)\)[[:blank:]].*/{s//\3/;/-dbg$/d;p}') > > > > remove the need of forking `awk'. > > They're less readble than the version with sed and fork IMO.
Maybe. Still, it's wasteful to fork both `awk' and `sed' for a simple task like that. Use just one of them. I don't grok `awk', so I can't help there. But `awk' is a bigger hammer, AFAICT. Cheers, -- Cristian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org