From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Jarosch Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Release of iptables 1.4.1-rc2 Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 10:26:54 +0200 Message-ID: <200805301026.54905.thomas.jarosch@intra2net.com> References: <483AB493.6010503@trash.net> <200805300933.53869.thomas.jarosch@intra2net.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Jan Engelhardt To: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from re01.intra2net.com ([82.165.28.202]:47455 "EHLO re01.intra2net.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752101AbYE3I1A (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 May 2008 04:27:00 -0400 In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline Sender: netfilter-devel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hi Jan, > Revision 1.72 - (view) (download) (as text) (annotate) - [select for diffs] > Mon Nov 19 13:23:29 2001 UTC (6 years, 6 months ago) by bero > Branch: MAIN > Changes since 1.71: +34 -1 lines > Diff to previous 1.71 > > Add -o option > > > I think it is ok to assume -o is always there. Nov 2001, that's linux > 2.4.14 timeframe, and most of the now-ancient distros have gone at > least up to 2.4.20s, which should imply that they also updated their > greps. Well, I run kernel 2.6.24 and never had a need to upgrade grep until now. But I'm fine with the new version, just wanted to report it. > >Should ./configure detect that > >or is it even possible to transform the grep call into something else? > > 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/' That's true, though I guess there is a "sed" wizard out there that can easily rewrite the call into a sed command, which should be available on most (ancient) systems ;-) Thomas