Re: retval of pipelined cmd in bash

[Randall R Schulz <rrschulz at cris dot com>]

Sören,

If you wrote all that yourself, I can't say you look like a BASH newbie. 
Then again, there's that "too clever by half" thing...


As an aside, I find "export NAME=value" to be clearer than "declare -x 
NAME=value", but that's just opinion.

As to your problem, first of all, you're only capturing the exit code when 
the make fails. Replace the "||" with a semicolon and ECODE will never be 
empty.

Secondly, you're using an odd way to test $ECODE. I usually use something 
like this:

if [ "$ECODE" -eq 0 ]; then
    echo Safe and sound.

else
    echo Uh-Oh!
fi


This has the added advantage of being portable to simpler shells like 
Bourne and Ash. I'm not sure about the expression facilities represented by 
use of the double-square-bracket notation.

Randall Schulz

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At 13:47 2002-12-20, Soren A wrote:
> Hallo Cygwains,
>
> [Heck, I dunno... "Cygwinauts"?].
>
> I have a possibly OT question, that is, a bash shell question. Lacking
> the insight into the deepest reaches of shell-ology, I have come up
> empty on all attempts to solve this one for myself. (Those attempts have
> included doing `info bash' and reading the "Advanced Bash Scripting
> Guide", an excellent resource available on the Web).
>
> I am writing a shell script that chains together several commands in a
> pipeline -- very *nix-ish. The first command in the pipeline is an
> invocation of `make'. Here's the entire script code -- I've tried many
> very elaborate or bizarre things, before this:
> ----------------------------------8<-----------------------------------
>    function powermake
>    {
>     declare -x LESS='-z-2$ -s~wR'
>     declare PAGER='/bin/less'
>     declare +x ECODE=
>     { make "$@" || ECODE=$? ; } 2>&1 | tee $MAKE_ERR_TO | \
>         /cdv/f/scr/colormake.pl | $PAGER -O"${MAKE_ERR_TO}.colorlog"
>     if [[ $ECODE ]]  # "0" and "1" are both TRUE; "null" is FALSE.
>        then $gvimexe --servername 'QUICKFIX' -q "$(cygpath -wla 
> $MAKE_ERR_TO)"
>        else echo 'No "make" errors to diagnose: retval was ' '"'$ECODE'".'
>     fi
>     return $ECODE
>    }
> ----------------------------------8<-----------------------------------
>
> The problem I am trying to solve is how to get the return value of the
> `make' tool. If there was an error I need to know about it. But as it
> stands, nothing that i have tried will cause me to see the VIM editor
> session start up; the value in ECODE is apparently always "0".
>
> Does anyone know how to do this -- how to pull out a return value from a
> command in the middle of a pipeline?
>
>    Thanks,
>      Soren

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