On Tue, Jun 02, 2015 at 03:57:44PM -0400, Eric Sunshine wrote: > > Oops, I missed the trailing '.' in the regex there, and it probably > > needs double-quotes in case the inner expr fails to match anything. > > Which is messy considering the double quotes already surrounding > $(uname_R). Suggestions?
The shell should do the right thing with nested quotes inside backticks. So just (untested): $(shell expr "`expr "$(uname_R)" : '\([0-9][0-9]*\.\)'`" '>=' 11),1) > I suppose the combination of `...` with built-in 'test' and built-in > 'echo' would be the most efficient choice. Do you want it re-rolled? I can live with it either way. It's all pretty horrible and ugly; the saving grace is that we hopefully never have to touch that line again. ;) -Peff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
