This seems to be the ticket. I'll be watching it but now I have an example
on how to dual-quote a string.
Thanks very much, Perry
On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 1:37 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > In the shell script, i have a
> > pkg_info -qLx "^$PKG-[0-9,._]+$"
> > also tried (-X)tended regex
Tim Judd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm sure it's faulty
>
> Which is why I'm asking for help
>
> My regexes (in it's various forms) produce the output similar to:
> xorg-fonts-75dpi
> xorg-fonts
> xorg-fonts-100dpi
> ...
> ...
> ...
>
> and I'm wanting my regex to return the 2nd
On Saturday 29 November 2008 05:58:44 Tim Judd wrote:
> In the shell script, i have a
> pkg_info -qLx "^$PKG-[0-9,._]+$"
> also tried (-X)tended regex instead of the standard rege(-x).
pkg_info -qLx "^${PKG}-[0-9,\._]+\$"
-- 1-- -2-
@1: shell evaluates before regex. U
On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 11:31:17PM -0700, Tim Judd wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 11:08 PM, Sahil Tandon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> > Tim Judd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > I am not sure what the problem is, but are you just looking for the
> > output of "pkg_info -qxL" on the *first* i
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Tim Judd wrote:
Hi all,
I've been trying for a few weeks to try to get this to work, and the /bin/sh
keeps snagging the command line before passing it to pkg_info
I'll use a different shell if I need to, but since I got everything except
this one thing working, i'd rathe
> In the shell script, i have a
> pkg_info -qLx "^$PKG-[0-9,._]+$"
> also tried (-X)tended regex instead of the standard rege(-x).
>
> sh keeps erroring out saying various $" isn't a valid variable
> name ...
Both sh and csh will try to treat $ inside of "" as a variable
reference. Does it work
I'm sure it's faulty
Which is why I'm asking for help
My regexes (in it's various forms) produce the output similar to:
xorg-fonts-75dpi
xorg-fonts
xorg-fonts-100dpi
...
...
...
and I'm wanting my regex to return the 2nd value, in this example, in this
list.
The problem is the shell
Tim Judd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've been trying for a few weeks to try to get this to work, and the /bin/sh
> keeps snagging the command line before passing it to pkg_info
>
> I'll use a different shell if I need to, but since I got everything except
> this one thing working, i'd rather ke
Hi all,
I've been trying for a few weeks to try to get this to work, and the /bin/sh
keeps snagging the command line before passing it to pkg_info
I'll use a different shell if I need to, but since I got everything except
this one thing working, i'd rather keep it in sh
In the shell script, i ha
