Re: backtick help

Hi Gisle,

I've tried the following with success:

VERSION = `grep WATTCP_VER_STRING inc/tcp.h | cut -d' ' -f4 |
sed -e 's/\"//g'`



Gisle Vanem wrote:

> I'm pulling my hairs trying to get 'sed' to work in a simple
> makefile (under MingW/MSYS/Win32). I have the following in a
> makefile:
> 
> VERSION = `grep WATTCP_VER_STRING inc/tcp.h | cut -d' ' -f4`
> ...
> show_ver:
>          @echo This is version $(VERSION)
> 
> 
> and '#define WATTCP_VER_STRING  "2.2.11"' in inc/tcp.h.
> 
> This produces the expected ' This is version "2.2.11"'. But I really need
> an output w/o the quotes. So I tried:
>   VERSION = `grep WATTCP_VER_STRING inc/tcp.h | cut -d' ' -f4 | sed -e
>   /\\"//`
> 
> This does not work however. Anybody can explain me why? What should
> the proper command be? I'm pretty lost here.
> 
> PS. The output from bash is:
>   /usr/bin/sh: -c: line 0: unexpected EOF while looking for matching ``'
>   /usr/bin/sh: -c: line 1: syntax error: unexpected end of file
> 

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Juergen