On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 01:38:00PM -0700, Ulf Zimmermann wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 01:11:52PM -0500, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> > * Ulf Zimmermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010909 04:47] wrote:
> > > Hello everyone.
> > >
> > > I am looking at some PRs and I am trying to come up with a solution to
> > > submit a patch. I know how to use expr to test as tring in sh inside
> > > of a /etc/rc* script, but what method would people recommend to remove
> > > part of the string after expr confirmed that something is part of it ?
> > >
> > > These are some examples strings:
> > >
> > > "dhcp"
> > > "dhcp media 10baseTX"
> > > "media 10baseTX dhcp mediaopt half-duplex"
> > >
> > > The following code will get me inside a if condition:
> > >
> > > if [ `expr "${ifconfig_args}" : '.*[Dd][Hh][Cc][Pp].*'` -ne 0 ]; then
> > >
> > > ....
> > >
> > > fi
> > >
> > > What I would like to do inside the if .. fi is to remove "[Dd][Hh][Cc][Pp]"
> > > from the string so that the rest of the options can be used to call ifconfig.
> > > Otherwise the if .. fi will test if the string is then empty or just white
> > > spaces and if so it will not do anything but set ${dhcp_interfaces}. If its
> > > not empty it will call ifconfig with the extra options to set the interface.
> > >
> > > Awk/sed comes to mind but those are in /usr/bin and I am trying to avoid
> > > that.
> > >
> > > Any suggestions from the more experienced hackers ?
> >
> > sed? :)
> >
> > sed 's/[Dd][Hh][Cc][Pp]//g'
> >
> > -Alfred
>
> sed is in /usr/bin and so its not a too good idea to use it in a /etc/rc
> script. There is sed also in /stand, can that be used ?
Expr could do the trick:
before=`expr "${ifconfig_args}" : '.*[Dd][Hh][Cc][Pp]\(.*\)'`
behind=`expr "${ifconfig_args}" : '\(.*\)[Dd][Hh][Cc][Pp].*'`
other_ifconfig_args="${before}${behind}"
And expr is in /bin.
My EUR 0.024 (~$0.02 :-)
> --
> Regards, Ulf.
>
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