[virt-tools-list] [PATCH] grep -q Portability

[Cole Robinson]

On 08/08/2011 04:42 PM, Richard Laager wrote:
> I don't think I've sent this one to the list yet.
> 
> The nc -q autodetection code fails if the target system's grep does not
> have a -q argument (quite the ironic coincidence). I believe -q is
> specified by POSIX, but Solaris 11's /bin/grep does not support -q.
> Redirecting to /dev/null works portably. (In fact, this is even
> recommended in favor of -q for portability by GNU grep's man page.)
> 
> This needs to be changed in virt-manager's src/virtManager/console.py.
> 
> Richard
> 
> diff --git a/src/virtManager/console.py b/src/virtManager/console.py
> index 1bdf26b..5fa9fe1 100644
> --- a/src/virtManager/console.py
> +++ b/src/virtManager/console.py
> @@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ class Tunnel(object):
>              nc_params = "%s %s" % (gaddr, gport)
>  
>          nc_cmd = (
> -            """nc -q 2>&1 | grep -q "requires an argument";"""
> +            """nc -q 2>&1 | grep "requires an argument" >/dev/null;"""
>              """if [ $? -eq 0 ] ; then"""
>              """   CMD="nc -q 0 %(nc_params)s";"""
>              """else"""
> 

Thanks, pushed upstream.

- Cole