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* [PATCH] fix unportability in gen_initramfs_list.sh
@ 2008-04-02 12:50 Felix Fietkau
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From: Felix Fietkau @ 2008-04-02 12:50 UTC (permalink / raw)
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On a Mac OS X machine the output of ls -l is different from a standard 
Linux machine. Use readlink instead of parsing a hardcoded field number 
from the ls output.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>

diff --git a/scripts/gen_initramfs_list.sh b/scripts/gen_initramfs_list.sh
index 684fb9c..5f3415f 100644
--- a/scripts/gen_initramfs_list.sh
+++ b/scripts/gen_initramfs_list.sh
@@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ parse() {
    			str="${ftype} ${name} ${str} ${dev} ${maj} ${min}"
    			;;
    		"slink")
-			local target=`field 11 $(LC_ALL=C ls -l "${location}")`
+			local target=`readlink "${location}"`
    			str="${ftype} ${name} ${target} ${str}"
    			;;
    		*)



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