Re: [PATCH] terminal split

[Robert Millan]

On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 06:20:57PM +0100, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote:
> 
> Also, a similar technique can be used to implement "getting an output as a 
> string". For example:
> 
>   # Use the same password as the super user.
>   set password=$(sed -ne '/^root:/{s/root:\([^:]*\).*/\1/;p}' /etc/shadow)

This would work much better in grub-mkconfig.  You don't want to implement
(or port) sed do you? ;-)

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Robert Millan

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