Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >>> +x1="[a-z0-9]" >> >> Why [a-z0-9] not [0-9a-f]? > > No reason. It's just what popped out of my head. > >> I'd rather see the basic BRE grep used if you are shooting for >> portability. >> >> There are some oddballs in the source (git-submodule.sh is a notable >> offender) but none of the core-ish scripts uses egrep nor "grep -E". > > Sigh, I just wanted the test to pass. I did a check to see if any > other tests were already using egrep, and when I found that they were, > I thought that would be good enough. > > Originally I had switched to perl. Would you prefer: Not really. If we are fixing it we should do it right. The regexp you inherited seem somewhat suboptimal, too. "(?:PUT|MOVE) .+objects/[\da-z]{2}/[\da-z]{38}_[\da-z\-]{40} HTTP/[0-9.]+" 20\d" - It has a double-quote. can it be anywhere or only at the beginning (if so "^" is missing at the beginning -- I didn't check)? - We then expect PUT or MOVE; Ok (that's "\(PUT\|MOVE\)"). - We then expect one space and one or more garbage before we see "objects/"; do we really care if it is one-or-more garbage, or is it zero-or-more garbage? Don't we want to see slash before "objects/" (I think we do)? - Then we expect objects/ and two hexdigits that should be spelled as [0-9a-f]{2} or [0-9a-f][0-9a-f] (or $x2). - Then we expect / and thiry-eight hexdigits, underscore and then 40 hexdigits (I think your $x38 and $x40 are fine); - Then we expect exactly one SP followed by HTTP/ (Ok); - And version can be one-or-more of [0-9.]; do we really allow HTTP/..999?, or we don't care? I think we shouldn't care, and in that case I think [.0-9]* is good enough here; So perhaps define a variable: good="\"\(PUT\|MOVE\) .*/objects/$x2/${x38}_$x40 HTTP/[.0-9]*" 20[0-9]\"" and grep for it? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html