[OT] Fun with walking package licenses

[Jeff Vian]

On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 17:41 +0000, Andy Green wrote:
> Mike McCarty wrote:
> 
> >>>> if [ -z "`echo $pkg | grep not\ owned`" ] ; then
> >>>
> >>> I'm not familiar with that form for grep. Do you mean
> >>>
> >>> grep -v owned
> >>
> >> Nope.
> > 
> > Oh, of course, you were escaping the space. But isn't this
> ...
> > grep -v not\ owned
> 
> Nope.
> 
Mike
He meant exactly what was said.
    grep -v not\ owned
means exactly the same as 
   grep -v "not owned"

I took that to mean what it says at face value.

> > You're welcome. It is a better solution, IMO. If the "not
> > owned" string gets changed by the maintainers of rpm,
> > then you'll have to track that. The "--quiet" is unlikely
> > to change, I think, and results in less coupling.
> 
> Well it's the great thing about Free software, you can have
> your version how you like.
> 
> -Andy
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