From 9e6dabcf22ef4679f4faaae15ebd5b137ae2fad1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lasse Collin <lasse.collin@tukaani.org>
Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2013 19:14:50 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Avoid unneeded use of awk in xzless.

Use "read" instead of "awk" in xzless to get the version
number of "less". The need for awk was introduced in
the commit db5c1817fabf7cbb9e4087b1576eb26f0747338e.

Thanks to Ariel P for the patch.
---
 src/scripts/xzless.in | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/scripts/xzless.in b/src/scripts/xzless.in
index 9bc9706b..288dd871 100644
--- a/src/scripts/xzless.in
+++ b/src/scripts/xzless.in
@@ -46,8 +46,7 @@ if test "${LESSMETACHARS+set}" != set; then
 	LESSMETACHARS="$space$tab$nl'"';*?"()<>[|&^`#\$%=~'
 fi
 
-less_ver=$(less -V | awk '/^less ([0-9]+)( \(.*\))?$/ { print $2; exit }')
-if test -n "$less_ver" && test "$less_ver" -ge 429; then
+if test "$(less -V | { read less ver re && echo ${ver}; })" -ge 429; then
 	# less 429 or later: LESSOPEN pipe will be used on
 	# standard input if $LESSOPEN begins with |-.
 	LESSOPEN="|-$xz -cdfq -- %s"