Re: [ANNOUNCE] Release of iptables 1.4.1-rc2

[Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>]

Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> On Sunday 2008-06-01 23:08, Patrick McHardy wrote:
>>> I assume people would not be amused if we start requiring perl.
>>> But you can use it as a workaround...
>>>  perl -ne 'print$&if/\b[A-Z0-9]+\b/'
>> What exactly is that grep supposed to do? How about sed
>> or awk?
>>
> It should grep all uppercase-only names from the module name list.
> grep seems more lightweight, I would not bother with awk.


Well, working properly takes precendence in my opinion.
I don't want to mess with this myself, but I'd apply a
patch to either use awk as fallback or unconditionally
if that works better.