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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2019-07-16 13:07, Leif Lindholm
      wrote:<br>
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      cite="mid:20190716190754.25412-1-leif.lindholm@linaro.org">
      <pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">
+        EXECUTABLE=`basename $file`
+        VERSION=`echo $EXECUTABLE | sed 's/[^0-9.]//g'`
+
+        MAJOR=`echo $VERSION | sed 's/\([0-9]*\)\.*.*/\1/'`
+        MINOR=`echo $VERSION | sed 's/[0-9]*\.*\([0-9]*\).*/\1/'`
+        PATCH=`echo $VERSION | sed 's/[0-9]*\.*[0-9]*\.*\([0-9]*\)/\1/'`</pre>
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    <p>Here and in other places, we should probably use $(...) instead
      of `...` .</p>
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    <p>From <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ/082">http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ/082</a> :</p>
    <p><span class="anchor" id="line-3"></span><tt>" `...`</tt> is the
      legacy syntax required by only the very oldest of
      non-POSIX-compatible bourne-shells. There are several reasons to
      always prefer the <tt>$(...)</tt> syntax..." <br>
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    <p><br>
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    <p>And <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://wiki.bash-hackers.org/scripting/obsolete">https://wiki.bash-hackers.org/scripting/obsolete</a></p>
    <p>"Both the <code>`COMMANDS`</code> and <code>$(COMMANDS)</code>
      syntaxes are specified by POSIX, but the latter is _greatly_
      preferred, though the former is unfortunately still very prevalent
      in scripts."</p>
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    <p>-- <br>
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    <p>Rebecca Cran<br>
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