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From: Yi Zhao <yi.zhao@windriver.com>
To: "Burton, Ross" <ross.burton@intel.com>
Cc: OE-core <openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] oeqa/runtime/parselogs: escape special character for grep
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2016 16:44:31 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <568F76EF.20009@windriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJTo0LZ67jsAcGxjsDEExDOjDsqE5JwNcOitZ1PjpL10VTgObA@mail.gmail.com>

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在 2016年01月07日 20:21, Burton, Ross 写道:
>
> On 7 January 2016 at 03:29, Yi Zhao <yi.zhao@windriver.com 
> <mailto:yi.zhao@windriver.com>> wrote:
>
>     Sometimes the grep output is not correct if the log message contains
>     some special characters. Use re.escape to escape all non-alphanumerics
>     before grep
>
>
> If we're going to insist that the strings are literal then instead of 
> telling grep to use extended regexp's and passing escaped regexs, why 
> not just use -F which tells grep to search for fixed strings, not 
> expressions.
Hi Ross,

It still need to escape quotation marks if using -F option.
Consider the following log:
[521514.737] (EE) evdev: Qemu Tablet: Unable to open evdev device 
"/dev/input/touchscreen0".

We still need an extra step to replace " with \" before grep

Yi

>
> Ross


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  reply	other threads:[~2016-01-08  8:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-01-07  3:29 [PATCH 0/3] oeqa/runtime: improve some test cases Yi Zhao
2016-01-07  3:29 ` [PATCH 1/3] oeqa/runtime/smart: fix hardcoded root directory Yi Zhao
2016-01-07  3:29 ` [PATCH 2/3] oeqa/runtime/logrotate: " Yi Zhao
2016-01-07  3:29 ` [PATCH 3/3] oeqa/runtime/parselogs: escape special character for grep Yi Zhao
2016-01-07 12:21   ` Burton, Ross
2016-01-08  8:44     ` Yi Zhao [this message]
2016-01-08  8:59       ` Burton, Ross
2016-01-12  1:51         ` Yi Zhao

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