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[PATCH] generate-cmdlist.sh: avoid selecting synopsis at wrong place

From
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date
Sep 18, 2008, 16:01 UTC
Message-ID
<1221753703-3331-1-git-send-email-pclouds@gmail.com>

In "common" man pages there is luckily no "NAME" anywhere except at beginning of documents. If there is another "NAME", sed could mis-select it and lead to common-cmds.h corruption. So better nail it at beginning of line, which would reduce corruption chance.

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
---
 generate-cmdlist.sh |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/generate-cmdlist.sh b/generate-cmdlist.sh
index a2913c2..75c68d9 100755
--- a/generate-cmdlist.sh
+++ b/generate-cmdlist.sh
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ sort |
 while read cmd
 do
      sed -n '
-     /NAME/,/git-'"$cmd"'/H
+     /^NAME/,/git-'"$cmd"'/H
      ${
             x
             s/.*git-'"$cmd"' - \(.*\)/  {"'"$cmd"'", "\1"},/
-- 
1.6.0.96.g2fad1.dirty
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