From: Jonas Fonseca Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 23:43:33 GMT Subject: Re: [COGITO PATCH] Fixing "cg-help typo" again Message-ID: <20050614234333.GA17152@diku.dk> In-Reply-To: <1118791967.3890.11.camel@dv> Pavel Roskin wrote Tue, Jun 14, 2005: > Hello! Hi, > "cg-help typo" is broken again (same symptom - no output) because the > print_help() output is piped through colorize(), which never fails. Sorry, I broke it in the cg-help colorization patch, and has already sent a patch to pasky, off-list I am afraid ... > > 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(). Use the PIPESTATUS aray as in the patch I sent: @@ -59,7 +59,8 @@ colorize() { if [ "$ARGS" ]; then cmd=$(echo "${ARGS[0]}" | sed 's/^cg-//') - ( print_help $cmd | colorize ) && exit + print_help $cmd | colorize + [ "${PIPESTATUS[0]}" -eq 0 ] && exit 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 -- Jonas Fonseca