From: Brandon Casey Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 17:37:13 +0000 (-0500) Subject: t/lib-pager.sh: remove unnecessary '^' from 'expr' regular expression X-Git-Tag: v1.7.2-rc1~7^2~3 X-Git-Url: http://git.tremily.us/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=832ac79edf0e0e9108f5da5b10b496a227667f40;p=git.git t/lib-pager.sh: remove unnecessary '^' from 'expr' regular expression Regular expressions matched by 'expr' have an implicit '^' at the beginning of them and so are anchored to the beginning of the string. Using the '^' character to mean "match at the beginning", is redundant and could produce the wrong result if 'expr' implementations interpret the '^' as a literal '^'. Additionally, GNU expr 5.97 complains like this: expr: warning: unportable BRE: `^[a-z][a-z]*$': using `^' as the first character of the basic regular expression is not portable; it is being ignored Signed-off-by: Brandon Casey Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- diff --git a/t/lib-pager.sh b/t/lib-pager.sh index f8c602587..ba03eab14 100644 --- a/t/lib-pager.sh +++ b/t/lib-pager.sh @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ test_expect_success 'determine default pager' ' test -n "$less" ' -if expr "$less" : '^[a-z][a-z]*$' >/dev/null +if expr "$less" : '[a-z][a-z]*$' >/dev/null then test_set_prereq SIMPLEPAGER fi