Hi John
On Tue, May 01, 2018 at 02:53:46PM -0400, John Ericson wrote:
+# Physical components of config
+comp1=`echo "$1" | sed 's/^\([^-]*\).*$/\1/'`
+comp2=`echo "$1" | sed 's/^[^-]*-\([^-]*\).*$/\1/'`
+comp3=`echo "$1" | sed 's/^[^-]*-[^-]*-\([^-]*\).*$/\1/'`
+comp4=`echo "$1" | sed 's/^[^-]*-[^-]*-[^-]*-\([^-]*\).*$/\1/'`
Can you please rework your patch with something like this, and then we
can ditch the nasty sed expressions above completely:
IFS="-" read comp1 comp2 comp3 comp4 <<EOF
$1
EOF
(bash has here-strings which would be nicer still, but they are not
portable enough.)
Thanks,
Ben