On 04/04/2012 03:01 AM, Andrey Repin wrote: > > Well, then, following your wisdom, I have to clog every line of my script with > "... || exit" or an equivalent.
No, you don't. You can factor out your feature checks up front, in a
way that still works with 'set -e', rather than having to give up 'set
-e' through the entire script. That said...
>
> Because even an attempt to continue execution, if any error occured, would be
> disastrous to the calling program.
> Solution is to "set -e" and have script bail out at any problem,
'set -e' is a can of worms, best avoided if you don't want surprises.
Consider:
f() { set -e; false; echo hi; }
f || echo bye
It does NOT exit on the false. Rather, it prints 'hi' and NOT 'bye',
all while turning on set -e for the rest of your script. And that
behavior is mandated by POSIX. My opinion is that you are better off
coding without 'set -e' in the first place.
> but if I try
> autoconf approach and blindly run whatever I feel appropriate, hoping for the
> best and preparing for worst, I won't have such option.
Give us more details of a feature you're trying to test. I'll even get
you started with an example - suppose you want to know when to use cygpath:
if (cygpath --version) >/dev/null 2>&1; then
my_convert() { cygpath "$1"; }
else
my_convert() { echo "$1"; }
fi
foo "$(my_convert "$file")"
which will run cygpath on $file on cygwin, and will use $file unchanged
on other platforms. And there you have a feature check - you checked
the feature of whether cygpath exists as an executable up front, then
the rest of your script is now OS-independent by relying on your
up-front setup based on the results of the feature check.
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