On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 03:35:58PM +0200, Lukas Fleischer wrote: > Although this isn't really significant... I was just curious :) > > `grep '${\?startdir}\?/src' /var/abs/*/*/PKGBUILD | wc -l` - "648" > > `grep '${\?startdir}\?/pkg' /var/abs/*/*/PKGBUILD | wc -l` - "1385" > > `fgrep '|| return 1' /var/abs/*/*/PKGBUILD | wc -l` - "9274" > > Isn't that something that could be fixed easily using sed(1)/awk(1)? > E.g. using: > > `find . -name 'PKGBUILD' -exec sed -i 's/$startdir\/src/$srcdir/g; > s/${startdir}\/src/${srcdir}/g; s/$startdir\/pkg/$pkgdir/g; > s/${startdir}\/pkg/${pkgdir}/g' {} ';'` > > ... to replace all that "$startdir/[...]" stuff? Sounds good conceptionally to me. However, wouldn't you need to escape the '$' signs as well? With regexp, the '$' means the end of the expression string.