Re: Libtool Bourne shell portability bug

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Jan 26, 2001, address@hidden (Michael Sokolov) wrote:

> Is this check really necessary?

Kind of.  The idea is to avoid having grep or sed meta-characters in
tagname, that would lead to unpredictable behavior later on.

> I couldn't think of a way to rewrite it portably.

How about:

  case `$echo "X$tagname" |
        $Xsed -e 
's/[-_ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz1234567890,/]//g'` in
  "") ;;
  *)
    echo "$progname: invalid tag name: $tagname" 1>&2
    exit 1
    ;;
  esac

?

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