On Mon, Nov 19, 2007 at 09:01:48PM -0500, Jack Howarth wrote: > I am stumped over something fink is doing to my > sed commands. I need to be able to execute... > > sed -i -e "s|tjmp %%edx|tjmp *%%edx|g" i386.c; > > inside of a sh shell patch script. However fink > seems to insist on changing the *%% to *%. This > is what an echo of ""tjmp *%%edx" shows when > executed in the shell script. How to I keep > fink's mitts off of this string?
"%" is the percent-expansion token in .info files. "%%" means the percent character itself (just like \\ means an actual \ character instead of some metacharacter in other languages). It's all explained in the percent-expansions section of the Packaging Manual. dan -- Daniel Macks [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.netspace.org/~dmacks ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel
