Hello there,
I would like to extract a part of the path of the executed script ($0)
in a variable, e.g. if the script was run as /some/path/getty-tty1/run,
I would like to extract "tty1" from the path, or similary, extract
"dropbear" from /some/path/dropbear-log/run. This would allow to write
templated services quite easily using symlinks. However, I noticed
there is no substitution nor sed equivalent in the execline/s6 tool
suite ; even a grep-like tool that output capturing groups would do the
trick. I think it would be doable with the existing set of tools but
would be quite heavy.
Indeed. execline is meant to be the glue between programs, not a
programming language, so string operations are not part of it. If you
write a shell program using sed, grep and similar utilities, you can
translate it verbatim to execline and it will work in the exact same way
(it will probably be more verbose because you'd have to invoke commands
such as backtick and pipeline, to translate ` and | from the shell).
But if you write a shell program using specific shell constructs such as
${foo##bar}, then you're using the shell as a programming language, and
there is no equivalent in execline.
My advice is simply to write your run scripts in shell as soon as the
complexity justifies it.
--
Laurent
