[syslinux] OT:Question on gen-id.sh $id

[Michael D. Setzer II]

Somewhat off-topic. 
I've noticed for some time, when one recompiles the syslinux, that 
it uses an id that is created by the gen-id.sh script that seems to 
be a hex string by making the id variable equal to the $tim 
variable. 

I had modified the script to append the the prexx of the directory 
to the $tim variable.  Tested it with the pre15 and pre17 that came 
out today. The first one would pull out the pre after the -, but the 
second one which also works would also handle if the directory 
was without a pre, but does assume that format is constant?

This way the hdt reports the $tim with the pre version, rather than 
the random $tim variable. 

The original line is id="$tim"

if test -z "$id"; then
  id="$tim-`echo ${PWD} | rev | cut -f2 -d/ | rev | cut -f3 -d-`"
  id="$tim-`echo ${PWD} | rev | cut -f2 -d/ | rev | cut -b15-19`"
fi
echo "$id"

Perhaps some other method would be better, but this is additional 
info. 





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