From: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
To: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Cc: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qemu-iotests: Fix _filter_qemu
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 15:52:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bo9evb01.fsf@blackfin.pond.sub.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130416131611.GA25650@stefanha-thinkpad.redhat.com> (Stefan Hajnoczi's message of "Tue, 16 Apr 2013 15:16:11 +0200")
Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> 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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-04-16 14:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-04-16 9:48 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qemu-iotests: Fix _filter_qemu Kevin Wolf
2013-04-16 12:26 ` Eric Blake
2013-04-16 13:16 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2013-04-16 13:52 ` Markus Armbruster [this message]
2013-04-16 15:08 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2013-04-16 13:56 ` Kevin Wolf
2013-04-16 14:08 ` Eric Blake
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