Re: cvs-1.11 make check fails

[Lars Hecking]

> > Anyone know why the above sed command wouldn't be portable?  And the
> > associated one:
> > 
> >     username=`id | sed 's/^uid=[0-9]*(\([^)]*\)).*$/\1/'`
> 
> If I were going to do it, I'd use expr rather than sed, but that's
> irrelevant because SUS2 says that the "uid" string is locale-specific,

 What about id | cut -d'(' -f1 | cut -d'=' -f2 ?

> so you can't depend on it.  Only ancient versions of id don't support -u
> and -n -- I don't know why Sun insists on making their antique tools the
> default when they supply a perfect good set of standards-conforming ones
> in /usr/xpg4/bin.  Anyone trying to run the test suite on Sun would be
> well advised to put /usr/xpg4/bin at the front of their path first.
 
 Yeah, some of Sun's tools suck greatly - [ef]grep, patch etc. too.

 -l

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