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From: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
To: git <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [COGITO PATCH] Fixing "cg-help typo" again
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 19:32:47 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1118791967.3890.11.camel@dv> (raw)

Hello!

"cg-help typo" is broken again (same symptom - no output) because the
print_help() output is piped through colorize(), which never fails.

I don't know any way to get return status of the first command in a
pipeline, so I changed to code to put print_help() output in a variable,
check status and then pipe the variable contents through colorize().

GNU bash can hold indefinitely much data in variables, and we need a few
kilobytes at most.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>

diff --git a/cg-help b/cg-help
--- a/cg-help
+++ b/cg-help
@@ -59,7 +59,8 @@ colorize() {
 
 if [ "$ARGS" ]; then
 	cmd=$(echo "${ARGS[0]}" | sed 's/^cg-//')
-	( print_help $cmd | colorize ) && exit
+	helpdata="$(print_help $cmd)"
+	[ "$?" = 0 ] && { echo "$helpdata" | colorize; exit 0; }
 	echo "cg-help: no help available for command \"${ARGS[0]}\""
 	echo "Call cg-help without any arguments for the list of available commands"
 	exit 1


-- 
Regards,
Pavel Roskin


             reply	other threads:[~2005-06-14 23:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-06-14 23:32 Pavel Roskin [this message]
2005-06-14 23:43 ` [COGITO PATCH] Fixing "cg-help typo" again Jonas Fonseca
2005-06-15  0:17   ` Pavel Roskin

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