Re: [COGITO PATCH] Optimized print_help()

[Jonas Fonseca <fonseca@diku.dk>]

Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org> wrote Tue, Jun 14, 2005:
> Hello!
> 
> print_help() in cg-Xlib should not be calling "which" 3 times.  It's an
> external command.  The patch caches the result in a local variable.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
> 
> diff --git a/cg-Xlib b/cg-Xlib
> --- a/cg-Xlib
> +++ b/cg-Xlib
> @@ -130,10 +130,11 @@ update_index () {
>  
>  
>  print_help () {
> -	which "cg-$1" >/dev/null 2>&1 || exit 1
> -	sed -n '/^USAGE=/,0s/.*"\(.*\)"/Usage: \1/p' < $(which cg-$1) 
> +	local toolpath=$(which cg-$1 2>/dev/null)
> +	[ -z "$toolpath" ] && exit 1
> +	sed -n '/^USAGE=/,0s/.*"\(.*\)"/Usage: \1/p' < $toolpath

Shouldn't $toolpath be quoted here to make it safer? Although it seems
the make install don't handle irregular toolpaths at the moment.

>  	echo
> -	cat $(which cg-$1) | sed -n '3,/^$/s/^# *//p'
> +	cat $toolpath | sed -n '3,/^$/s/^# *//p'

What about also removing UUOC from this line ...

	sed -n '3,/^$/s/^# *//p' < "$toolpath"

>  	exit
>  }

-- 
Jonas Fonseca