Dan Nicholson wrote: > On 1/28/07, Alexander E. Patrakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Tushar Teredesai wrote: >>> cat /proc/version | head -n1 | cut -d" " -f1-3,5-7 > > Pet peeve. Don't use cat to create input streams when the shell is > perfectly capable on it's own with <.
vs > sed -n 's/.*gcc version \([^() ]*\)[() ].*/\1/p;q' < /proc/version >From an educational view, what's wrong with showing a different way of doing things. Actually Tush's version above is much clearer to me than your sed, although I don't think the head -n1 is needed (it may be in some cases, but not for my systems). -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
