Re: patch for "bizarre read bug" in klibc dash

[Alexander E. Patrakov]

Joshua Hudson wrote:
> Oh, and the original code that found this long ago:
> grep MemFree /proc/meminfo | read J MEMFREE K
> case $MEMFREE in
> ...
> (MEMFREE used several times below)
>
> Had to convert to:
>
> MEMFREE=`grep MemFree /proc/meminfo | (READ J M K ; echo $M)`
> case $MEMFREE in
> ...

Pure-shell implementation:

while read J M K ; do
    case "$J" in
    MemFree:)
        MEMFREE="$M"
    esac
done </proc/meminfo
case $MEMFREE in
...

--
Alexander E. Patrakov

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