John Darrow wrote:

> In article <199904062335.JAA06679@balrog.supp.cpr.itg.telecom.com.au> you write:
> >Are there any big objections to adding a
> >
> >	#	$NetBSD$
> >
> >line to the start of each set file and changing the last line of
> >makeflist from:
> >
> >	done | sort -u
> >
> >to:
> >
> >	done | egrep -v '^#[[:space:]]*\$NetBSD' | sort -u
> >
> >Simon.
> 
> How about simply "egrep -v '^#'"?  We might want to add things other than
> just an RCS ID to the list files, such as miscellaneous comments.  Also,
> at the moment the lists are hand-edited, but (as they continue to get
> larger) we might want to, at some point, set up some way to generate them,
> which would probably lead to a 'generated from' tag of some sort.
> At the moment, I don't see much of a chance of having files/directories
> starting with '#' in the lists.

I was trying to cover the case for when someone piped up and said "what
about a file starting with #".  Thinking about it more, all the files
(except for /) start with ./ anyway, so you can have ./#foo and still
strip out leading '^#' anyway.

Simon.