Re: MISTAKE in /etc/mc/mc.menu file!!

["Andrew V. Samoilov" <kai cmail ru>]

Hello, Zeus!
. . .

> Both in lines 203 & 211 of the above mentioned file, the regular 
> expression fed to egrep command needs putting a backslash before the 
> "|" symbols (vertical slash?) in order for them to not lose their 
> special meaning in the expression. I've obtained this information 
> from the egrep manual.
There are no needs to put '\' before .z
Anyway these rules were rewritten without egrep and commited to CVS.

>    If not so, the command never finds no ".gz", ".z" or ".Z" 
> extension in the input files and don't pass the "-d" option. So, when 
> trying to decompress them with the "y" option in the User Menu, makes 
> nothing and returns error.
Well, but as far as I remember this worked fine for me. What OS/shell do 
you use?

Best regards,
Andrew.