On 29.05.2012 11:10, Marcus Schäfer wrote:
Hi,
I don't know why kiwi's initrd calls an external tool for it either :)
There is a good reason. When using expr you see that when in shell debug mode (set -x) when using $((...)) you don't see the calculation bits just the result. So it was helpful for debugging for me but I will eliminate the use of expr if it's gone
You could just printf "..." >&2 for the important numbers (which is quite efficient as printf is a builtin). See also my other mail on how to avoid the unnecessary cut/grep/cat stuff.
Just to tell you I don't think it's a good idea to remove old stone linux tools like expr you will break more than just kiwi
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