[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Problems detecting automake version.
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On Tue, 19 Aug 2003, Per I. Mathisen wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Aug 2003, Marko Lindqvist wrote:
> > >-pkg_version=`$PACKAGE --version|head -n 1|sed 's/^[a-zA-Z\.\ ()]*//;s/
> > >.*$//'`
> > >+pkg_version=`$PACKAGE --version|head -n 1|sed 's/(.*)//;s/^[a-zA-Z\.\
> > >]*//;s/ .*$//'`
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> Ah. But you can accidentially delete too much, since sed is so greedy. For
> example the version string "test version (linux) 1.15.0 (beta-1)" will be
> correctly parsed by the current sed magic, while your new one will fail.
Paul (on irc) suggested sed 's/([^)]*)//g'. It seems to work.
- Per
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