Paul,
1) I wasn't trying to solve the --version issue, only the parsing of the response.
2) I assumed from the initial e-mail that the broken parser was in a Perl script. I'm not a Perl person, so I wrote the example regular expression parser in sed.
These commands were done on my Mac OS X 10.6 system. I have no idea where the apps came from. I know the sed, at least, does not recognize regular expressions documented for GNU sed (such as \< \> for begin/end word). Maybe it is a BSD sed?
I was just trying to illustrate how to fix the broken parsing of Ralph's "flex --version". Assuming the RE parser I wrote is satisfactory, it would have to be adapted to fit in the framework, i.e., it has to be portable.
On 14 Nov 2012, at 5:41 PM, Paul Hargrove wrote:
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 6:26 PM, Larry Baker
<baker@usgs.gov> wrote:
m4 --version | sed -n -E -e '1s/^.*[^A-Za-z0-9_-]?([0-9]+[.][0-9]+[.][0-9]+)[^A-Za-z0-9_-]?.*$/\1/p'
1) M4 on OpenBSD (maybe others) doesn't support a "--version" flag:
$ m4 --version | sed -n -E -e '1s/^.*[^A-Za-z0-9_-]?([0-9]+[.][0-9]+[.][0-9]+)[^A-Za-z0-9_-]?.*$/\1/p'
m4: unknown option -- -
usage: m4 [-gPs] [-Dname[=value]] [-d flags] [-I dirname] [-o filename]
[-t macro] [-Uname] [file ...]
2) sed on Solaris (maybe others) doesn't support a "-E" flag:
$ m4 --version | sed -n -E -e '1s/^.*[^A-Za-z0-9_-]?([0-9]+[.][0-9]+[.][0-9]+)[^A-Za-z0-9_-]?.*$/\1/p'
/bin/sed: illegal option -- E
-Paul
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