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Re: address@hidden: Re: sed or grub-install bug?]
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Alfred M. Szmidt |
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Re: address@hidden: Re: sed or grub-install bug?] |
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Wed, 19 Feb 2003 08:59:53 +0100 |
I'm guessing that something changed in ls's output so that that sed
expression won't work on the output of ls anymore.
I tried it with the latest coreutils, and couldn't see anything that
might trigger a bug. And if the 'ls -l' output for symbolic links
would change, then it would actually violate POSIX in some-way that I
don't remember right now. Maybe some locale setting is the bug...
address@hidden:~/coreutils-4.5.7/i686-pc-linux-gnu/src$ ./ls --version | head
-n1
ls (coreutils) 4.5.7
address@hidden:~/coreutils-4.5.7/i686-pc-linux-gnu/src$ sed --version | head -n1
GNU sed version 3.02
address@hidden:~/coreutils-4.5.7/i686-pc-linux-gnu/src$ ./ls -al foo
lrwxrwxrwx 1 ams ams 2 Feb 19 08:49 foo -> ls
address@hidden:~/coreutils-4.5.7/i686-pc-linux-gnu/src$ ./ls -al foo | sed -n
's%.*-> %\1%p'
ls
Sadly, I don't think that readlink is a standard command you can
count on the existence of :/
Indeed, readlink is a totally unstandard command.