Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qemu-iotests: Fix _filter_qemu

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 03:52:14PM +0200, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> Stefan Hajnoczi <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> [...]
> > The problem with the POSIX shell string replacement is that the syntax
> > is horrible.  I can never remember what ${%}, ${%%}, ${#} and
> > %{##} do.  $(basename $QEMU_PROG) is clear (although it doesn't handle
> > spaces in the filename!).
> 
> Here's how I cope.  # is left of % my keyboard.  # matches "on the
> left", % "on the right".  #/% are "short" and pick the shortest matching
> pattern.  ##/%% are "long" and pick the longest matching pattern.

Nice :).

Stefan