Re: [Quilt-dev] Re: ftw removed; emacs mode; translations; ready for 0.43?

[Andreas Gruenbacher]

On Friday 03 February 2006 02:51, John Vandenberg wrote:
> The attached patch fixes the problem.

> Sun awk does not like ~ syntax.  Also, the commands
> need to be reordered otherwise /^$/ causes it to
> bail out too early.

I don't understand the reorder issue, and neither the $ in /^[a-z]+:[ $\t]/.

> > I would also like to change the way how parameters are currently passed
> > to awk in many places in one of the next steps, like this:
> >
> >                 awk '
> > -               $0 == "'"$patch"'"      { exit }
> > -                                       { print }
> > -               ' $DB
> > +               $1 == patch     { exit }
> > +                               { print }
> > +               ' patch="${patch//\\/\\\\}" $DB
>
> What about passing parameters to awk on the command line; will that work ?

That's what it is, yes.

Thanks,
Andreas