Re: Linux configuration scripts patches

Riley Williams (rhw@bigfoot.com)
Fri, 10 Apr 1998 22:06:21 +0100 (BST)


Hi Daniel.

> Are you aware that '.' matches ANY character in sed? You may wish
> to add '\' before it to make it a literal period.

> ...
> >+ (echo; echo "$text"; echo) | sed 's/^.$//' | ${PAGER:-more}
> ...
> >+ echo "$text" | sed 's/^.$//'
> ...

> Should be:

> >+ (echo; echo "$text"; echo) | sed 's/^\.$//' | ${PAGER:-more}
> >+ echo "$text" | sed 's/^\.$//'

I have to admit that I wasn't, but you're the third person to make me
aware of this. A revised patch was submitted a few minutes ago...

To anybody else who's sent me the same reminder, please accept this as
your acknowledgement...

Best wishes from Riley.

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