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Re: Yet Another test option
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: Yet Another test option |
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Sun, 03 Jul 2011 14:21:21 -0400 |
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On 7/2/11 3:49 PM, Bruce Korb wrote:
> Hi Chet, et al.,
>
> Given that sort(1GNU) now has a sort-by-version-ordering (sort -V),
> it would seem reasonable to do version comparisons without having
> to do a series of fork & execs. In other words, abbreviate this:
>
> min_os_ver=`
> printf '2.6.27\n%s\n' "$LINUXRELEASE" | sort -V | head -1`
> if test "X$min_os_ver" = "X2.6.27" ; then
>
> into something like this:
>
> if test "2.6.27" -Vle "$LINUXRELEASE" ; then
>
> or add a different operator to [[ ]] contexts?
This seems like it is of really limited usefulness to be baked into
the shell.
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Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU chet@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/
- Yet Another test option, Bruce Korb, 2011/07/02
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