boxes.sh grep: Unmatched [ or [^ at egrep '[[:space]]'
Václav Haisman
v.haisman@sh.cvut.cz
Mon Aug 9 12:25:00 GMT 2010
On Mon, 9 Aug 2010 11:05:12 +0200, Reini Urban wrote:
> Jaro,
>
> Our nice new setup found a problem in the boxes postinstall script:
> Package: boxes
> boxes.sh exit code 2
> Package: No package
> boxes.sh exit code 2
>
> cd /etc/postinstall
> $ ./boxes.sh
> grep: Unmatched [ or [^
>
> in grep -E '^[^#]*/|^[[:space]]*$'
/etc/preremove/boxes-manifest-from.lst
> and it is the [[:space]] part, which is broken. Per man grep it should
> work, but I don't know those specialities too well.
Should that not be '[[:space:]]'? Without the single quotes.
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