Re: [Xen-devel] getting etherboot compiling

To:	John Levon <levon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject:	Re: [Xen-devel] getting etherboot compiling
From:	Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:	Mon, 4 Feb 2008 17:07:19 +0000
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John Levon writes ("Re: [Xen-devel] getting etherboot compiling"):
> It's the variable substitution command, not understand by the 'real'
> Bourne shell

You mean the ${...#...} construction in this line
         echo "  ETHERBOOT_ROM($nic,${makerom#*-p}) \\"
?

This is specified in SuSv3 `Shell Command Language' section 2.6.2
`Parameter Expansion', final part of the normative text.

Ian.

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