Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2000 11:54:48 +0100 From: Marc Lehmann <marc@xxxxxxxx> ($plugins = `$GIMPTOOL -n --install-admin-bin /bin/sh`) =~ s{^.*\s(.*?)(?:/+bin/sh)\r?\n?$}{$1}} (I only need it in the testsuite, which is not run when we're inside the gimp source tree) Which will work for essentially any general purpose Linux system, since every distribution I know of comes with perl, but... What does the output look like in 1.0? -- Robert Krawitz <rlk@xxxxxxxxxxxx> http://www.tiac.net/users/rlk/ Tall Clubs International -- http://www.tall.org/ or 1-888-IM-TALL-2 Member of the League for Programming Freedom -- mail lpf@xxxxxxxxxxxx Project lead for The Gimp Print -- http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net "Linux doesn't dictate how I work, I dictate how Linux works." --Eric Crampton