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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Display runnning countdown in a bash script? Post 302302228 by Corona688 on Monday 30th of March 2009 11:54:39 AM
Old 03-30-2009
Great idea, thanks for the patch! But since your copy/paste of it wasn't identical down to the last bit of whitespace and newline(possible disagreement on spaces per tab, etc) I'm having trouble applying it... diff -U is generally preferred these days as it gives more complete information on what's being replaced where, but a full code-listing really can't be that much larger.

But I think I see a potential problem in your use of printf: if your PREFIX variable includes control sequences like %d it will cause printf to do strange things since it will insert parameters from the commandline. Try inserting %s instead of PREFIX, and making "${PREFIX}" the first argument printf is given. This will guarantee the string is printed as 100% literals.
 

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NAME

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SYNOPSIS

       psiconv-config [--prefix[=DIR]] [--exec-prefix[=DIR]] [--version] [--libs] [--cflags] [LIBRARIES]

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       psiconv-config  is a tool that is used to configure to determine the compiler and linker flags that should be used to compile and link pro-
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	       Psiconv has one library 'psiconv'.  If you specify one of them, only the appropriate things for that library will be printed.

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