In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Wed, 05 Jun 2002 09:43:45 -0400, Rich Salz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
rsalz> Richard Levitte via RT wrote: rsalz> > Can I assume that sed exists and works properly? dirname can be rsalz> > coded like this: rsalz> rsalz> > echo $$i | sed -e 's|[^/]*$||' -e 's|/$||' rsalz> rsalz> "dirname foo" returns "." which the above doesn't catch. Ah, I missed that... rsalz> */* ) echo "$I" | sed -e 's@\(.*\)/.*@\1@' ;; Why such a complicated sed? 's@/[^/]*$@@' is perfecty sufficient, and a little bit more efficient :-). rsalz> on the other hand, since you're already requirring perl ... That was my next option. -- Richard Levitte \ Spannvägen 38, II \ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Redakteur@Stacken \ S-168 35 BROMMA \ T: +46-8-26 52 47 \ SWEDEN \ or +46-708-26 53 44 Procurator Odiosus Ex Infernis -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Member of the OpenSSL development team: http://www.openssl.org/ Unsolicited commercial email is subject to an archival fee of $400. See <http://www.stacken.kth.se/~levitte/mail/> for more info. ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org Development Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]