On Wed, Nov 23, 2022 at 10:48:22AM +0100, Martijn van Duren wrote:
> On Wed, 2022-11-23 at 09:25 +0000, Klemens Nanni wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 23, 2022 at 10:15:20AM +0100, Martijn van Duren wrote:
> > > Here's an attempt to remove sed from netstart.
> >
> > I don't see the point in this.
>
> On Mon, 2022-11-21 at 20:42 -0700, Theo de Raadt wrote:
> > Oh, except that using grep, head, or awk. That breaks NFS diskless
> > machines, because they are in /usr, which may not be mounted yet.
> >
> > So this has to be done using shell features or commands in /bin and /sbin.
> > You will see these interesting hacks in other parts of rc and netstart.
> >
> >
>
> https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=166908823920806&w=2
Ah, NFS /usr.
Instead of rolling our own shell functions, maybe this is a good reason
to implement ${parameter/pattern/string} in ksh(1)?
This should make shell scripting in base a lot easier where awk/sed is
not available; the installer could probably use this as well.
At least Bash has this (and other pattern substitution) syntax.
