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- From: george@tusk.med.harvard.edu (George Planansky)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
- Subject: ultrix 4.2 MAKEDEV expr regex seems wrong ?
- Message-ID: <GEORGE.92Sep13014328@tusk.med.harvard.edu>
- Date: 13 Sep 92 05:43:28 GMT
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- Organization: Harvard Medical School, Boston MA
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- An Ultrix 4.2 (DEC 5000/200) /dev/MAKEDEV has an
- expr regex with a leading "," (comma), which makes no
- sense to me:
-
- for fullname
- do
-
- tryname=`expr $fullname : ',*\(.[a-zA-Z]*\)'`
- tryunit=`expr $fullname : '[^0-9]*\([0-9]*\)'`
- trypart=`expr $fullname : '[^0-9]*[0-9]*\(.*\)'`
- if test $silent -eq 0 ; then
- echo "MAKEDEV: special file(s) for "$fullname": "
- fi
-
- Is this a typo lurking in the distributed MAKEDEV?
-
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- George Planansky
- Department of Biological Chemistry & Molecular Pharmacology
- Harvard University Medical School, 240 Longwood Ave., Boston, MA 02115
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