Re: [NEW PATCH] Add option to grub-probe to accept system devices as arguments

[Robert Millan]

On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 02:46:17PM +0100, Fabian Greffrath wrote:
> Robert Millan schrieb:
> >Better do this like it's done in other scripts (check grub-install).  Not 
> >sure
> >why, I guess it's more portable that way...
> 
> Ah, now I know what you ment. However, I cannot really see the 
> advantage in
> 
>  grub_probe=${sbindir}/`echo grub-probe | sed ${transform}`
> 
> with ${transform}="s,x,x,".
> 
> I rather reads like WTF to me... ;)

Maybe Okuji knows... ;-)

> BTW, in another mail from 4 Feb you asked my if the
> "echo ... | cut ..." mess in my script could be simplified with the
> "echo ... | read ..." feature. I am sorry, but the answer is "no".
> 
> This is because read will run in a separate process and cannot set the 
> variables in the parent shell, see 
> <http://www.unixguide.net/unix/bash/E4.shtml>.

Ok no big deal.

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