Re: shell compatibility issues with SunOS 5.10

From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
Date: May 6, 2009, 06:45 UTC
Message-ID: <4A01320A.2050600@viscovery.net>
In-Reply-To: <20090506055913.GA9701@dektop>

Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy schrieb:

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> I did "make test" on a SunOS 5.10 and it failed. With the below patch,
> only t7400 and t8005 kept failing. For the first case, t7400.5 failed
> because extensive use of sed to normalize path in git-submodule.sh
> 
> 	# normalize path:
> 	# multiple //; leading ./; /./; /../; trailing /
> 	path=$(printf '%s/\n' "$path" |
> 		sed -e '
> 			s|//*|/|g
> 			s|^\(\./\)*||
> 			s|/\./|/|g
> 			:start
> 			s|\([^/]*\)/\.\./||
> 			tstart
> 			s|/*$||
> 		')

There was a lengthy thread that lead to this version of the sed expression. Could you please tell what your sed has to say about it? It works even on AIX 4.3.3.

-- Hannes

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