Use sed to set the version number.

diff --git a/release.sh b/release.sh
index 3b3a2c3..0eb3649 100755 (executable)
--- a/release.sh
+++ b/release.sh
@@ -93,8 +93,7 @@ run mkdir $PKG
 run cp -r $files $PKG/.
 
 # set the version number
-(echo "AC_INIT(darkstat, $VERSION)"
- grep -v "^AC_INIT" configure.ac) > $PKG/configure.ac
+run sed -e "/AC_INIT/s/darkstat, [^,)]*/darkstat, $VERSION/" configure.ac > $PKG/configure.ac
 
 say set version: `grep '^AC_INIT' $PKG/configure.ac`
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