freebsd-update's install_verify routine excessive stating

Oliver Fromme olli at lurza.secnetix.de
Thu Jan 22 06:19:57 PST 2009


Christoph Mallon wrote:
 > Oliver Fromme schrieb:
 > > >              cut -f 2,7 -d '|' |
 > > >              grep -E '^f' |
 > > >              cut -f 2 -d '|' |
 > > >              sort -u > filelist
 > > 
 > > It's unclear why there are two "cut" commands.  The 7th
 > > field isn't used at all.  Also, the -E option to grep
 > 
 > After the first cut the seventh field becomes the second:

Ah yes, you're right, of course.
My caffeine level was insufficient, I guess.  :-)

 > > So I would suggest to replace the whole pipe with this:
 > > 
 > >    awk -F "|" '$2 ~ /^f/ {print $2}' "$@" |
 > >    sort -u > filelist
 > 
 > It should print $7, see above.

Right.  Thanks for pointing it out.

Best regards
   Oliver

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