Re: setting a variable to be the result of severla shell commands...

[richard offer]

* frm address@hidden "06/25/02 00:41:20 -0400" | sed '1,$s/^/* /'
*
* 
* Why not just write it in a longer $(shell ...) function?  One of the
* nicest things about Bourne shell, unlike the horrible C shell, is that
* you can write just about any script without needing newlines at all.
* 
* Why not something like (note, entirely untested...):
* 

Thanks for the idea...

Here's the working code...

build-ver=$(strip $(1)build$(shell n=$(shell \
  ( [ -f .build_num ] &&  expr `cat .build_num` + 1 ) \
  || echo 1 ) ; echo $$n>.build_num; echo $$n ))

REL:=$(call build-ver,4)


I'm sure someone can optimize it more than that, but it's giving me
something to play with, thanks

richard.


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Richard Offer                     Technical Lead, Trust Technology, SGI
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