From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1KyWgG-000139-An for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Nov 2008 14:07:40 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KyWgE-00012y-N5 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Nov 2008 14:07:38 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KyWgD-00012D-Vf for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Nov 2008 14:07:38 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=36895 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KyWgD-000129-OO for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Nov 2008 14:07:37 -0500 Received: from mx20.gnu.org ([199.232.41.8]:46365) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KyWgD-000380-AR for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Nov 2008 14:07:37 -0500 Received: from aybabtu.com ([69.60.117.155]) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KyWgC-0002Ej-HU for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Nov 2008 14:07:36 -0500 Received: from [192.168.10.10] (helo=thorin) by aybabtu.com with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KyWfN-0002Wt-DK for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Nov 2008 20:06:46 +0100 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1KyWfj-0002Jk-6D for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Nov 2008 20:07:07 +0100 Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2008 20:07:07 +0100 From: Robert Millan To: The development of GRUB 2 Message-ID: <20081107190707.GC8625@thorin> References: <20081102181132.GA24737@thorin> <200811041652.21150.okuji@enbug.org> <491094ED.8030704@nic.fi> <200811061820.57827.okuji@enbug.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200811061820.57827.okuji@enbug.org> Organization: free as in freedom X-Message-Flag: Worried about Outlook viruses? Switch to Thunderbird! www.mozilla.com/thunderbird X-Debbugs-No-Ack: true User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-detected-kernel: by mx20.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. Subject: Re: [PATCH] terminal split X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2008 19:07:38 -0000 On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 06:20:57PM +0100, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: > > Also, a similar technique can be used to implement "getting an output as a > string". For example: > > # Use the same password as the super user. > set password=$(sed -ne '/^root:/{s/root:\([^:]*\).*/\1/;p}' /etc/shadow) This would work much better in grub-mkconfig. You don't want to implement (or port) sed do you? ;-) -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all."