Re: [Guillem Jover] Parsing of dpkg status file considered harmful

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Florent Rougon <f.rougon@free.fr> wrote:

>     dpkg-query -W -f='${Conffiles}' "$package" \
>       | while read file sum; do
>             if [ "$file" = "$conffile" ]; then
>                 echo "$sum"
>                 found=1
>                 break
>             fi
>         done

Is there any particular reason why did you use the while loop?  Looking
at the old code, I would have intuitively used

md5sum=$(dpkg-query -W -f='${Conffiles}' $package | grep "$file[[:space:]]" | cut -f 3 -d ' ')

Regards, Frank

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Dr. Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)