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1?RCS: $Id: contains.U 1 2006-08-24 12:32:52Z rmanfredi $
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3?RCS: Copyright (c) 1991-1997, 2004-2006, Raphael Manfredi
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5?RCS: You may redistribute only under the terms of the Artistic Licence,
6?RCS: as specified in the README file that comes with the distribution.
7?RCS: You may reuse parts of this distribution only within the terms of
8?RCS: that same Artistic Licence; a copy of which may be found at the root
9?RCS: of the source tree for dist 4.0.
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11?RCS: $Log: contains.U,v $
12?RCS: Revision 3.0 1993/08/18 12:05:35 ram
13?RCS: Baseline for dist 3.0 netwide release.
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15?MAKE:contains: Nothing
16?MAKE: -pick add $@ %<
17?S:contains:
18?S: This variable holds the command to do a grep with a proper return
19?S: status. On most sane systems it is simply "grep". On insane systems
20?S: it is a grep followed by a cat followed by a test. This variable
21?S: is primarily for the use of other Configure units.
22?S:.
23: Some greps do not return status, grrr.
24echo "grimblepritz" >grimble
25if grep blurfldyick grimble >/dev/null 2>&1 ; then
26 contains=contains
27elif grep grimblepritz grimble >/dev/null 2>&1 ; then
28 contains=grep
29else
30 contains=contains
31fi
32rm -f grimble
33: the following should work in any shell
34case "$contains" in
35contains*)
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36 echo " " >&4
37 echo "AGH! Grep doesn't return a status. Attempting remedial action." >&4
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38 cat >contains <<'EOSS'
39grep "$1" "$2" >.greptmp && cat .greptmp && test -s .greptmp
40EOSS
41chmod +x contains
42esac
43