From: Brandon Casey Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 17:37:13 GMT Subject: [PATCH 1/3] t/lib-pager.sh: remove unnecessary '^' from 'expr' regular expression Message-ID: <__CrpvAIIX9lgHHkBLHB9fuuN7Rspzl7LFSDSwXwVCT6rYs_YOUHNMf7JZQbKaPHRl6AjsJ9dx8@cipher.nrlssc.navy.mil> From: Brandon Casey Regular expressions matched by 'expr' have an implicit '^' at the beginning of them and so are anchored to the beginning of the string. Using the '^' character to mean "match at the beginning", is redundant and could produce the wrong result if 'expr' implementations interpret the '^' as a literal '^'. Additionally, GNU expr 5.97 complains like this: expr: warning: unportable BRE: `^[a-z][a-z]*$': using `^' as the first character of the basic regular expression is not portable; it is being ignored Signed-off-by: Brandon Casey --- t/lib-pager.sh | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/t/lib-pager.sh b/t/lib-pager.sh index f8c6025..ba03eab 100644 --- a/t/lib-pager.sh +++ b/t/lib-pager.sh @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ test_expect_success 'determine default pager' ' test -n "$less" ' -if expr "$less" : '^[a-z][a-z]*$' >/dev/null +if expr "$less" : '[a-z][a-z]*$' >/dev/null then test_set_prereq SIMPLEPAGER fi -- 1.6.6.2