From: Paul Jackson Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 23:22:34 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] gittrack.sh accepts invalid branch names Message-ID: <20050420162234.3ccbf23e.pj@sgi.com> In-Reply-To: <1114026510.15186.15.camel@dv> Pavel wrote: > sed -ne "/^$name\t/p" .git/remotes | grep -q . Consider using the following to look for a match of $name with the first tab separated field of the remotes file (and to avoid using 'grep -q', which is not in all grep's, so far as I know): cut -f1 .git/remotes | grep -Fx "$name" >/dev/null -- I won't rest till it's the best ... Programmer, Linux Scalability Paul Jackson 1.650.933.1373, 1.925.600.0401