[Peeweelinux] rc.pcmcia fails

[vwbug19]

we can simple toss out the rh 6.2 grep and replace it with older version of
grep and it may work?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Barry Gershenfeld" <barry_g@zmicro.com>
To: <peeweelinux@adis.on.ca>
Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 2:39 PM
Subject: Re: [Peeweelinux] rc.pcmcia fails


> I "grepped grep" and found this, on a RH7.3 system.
>
>   Fgrep is the same as grep -F.
>
>   -F, --fixed-strings
>          Interpret PATTERN as a list of fixed strings, sepa-
>          rated  by  newlines, any of which is to be matched.
>          -P, --perl-regexp Interpret PATTERN as a Perl regu-
>          lar expression.
>
> I'd be surprised if these were "just added" but the man page does
> say Jan 2002, so it could be.
>
> Here is another trick for strange messages from scripts:
>
>   sh -x pcmcia
>
> will echo everything going in and out of the script so you can
> see the command that caused the 'Syntax error: Bad substitution'
> error.
>
> Barry
>
>
>
> At 08:04 PM 9/4/02 -0700, you wrote:
> >'grep -F'.  When
> >I look at the web page for busybox there isn't an '-F' listed, nor is
there
> >one listed on grep on my Redhat 7.2 box.  The other problem is in the
last
> >line of the script, I get a 'Syntax error: Bad substitution'
> >
> >Randy Torgerson
>
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