Bug#249597: texmf: Leaves spurious tempfiles around
On 21.05.04 Jeroen van Wolffelaar (jeroen@wolffelaar.nl) wrote:
> On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 10:58:10AM +0200, Hilmar Preusse wrote:
Hi,
> > How about:
> >
> > if `fmtutil --all >> $TEMPFILE`; then rm $TEMPFILE; else echo -e \
> > "\nSomething went wrong. Output of initex is in $TEMPFILE."; fi
> >
> > Don't know, how bash-specific that is.
>
> I'm not sure about the bash-specificness of -e, but it isn't
> needed. I don't think you need newlines, and even if so, simply use
> two echo statement.
>
OK, thanks.
> But your code layout is a bit suboptimal (you can do linebreaks in if's
> like I showed),
>
I just wanted to write comapct code. We can reformat later.
> and it's wrong in that you now try to execute the output for
> fmtutil --all. You should drop the backtics, if takes a command to
> test for exit status.
>
Thanks.
Finally:
if fmtutil --all >> $TEMPFILE; then
rm $TEMPFILE
else
echo; echo "Something went wrong. Output of initex is in $TEMPFILE."
fi
--
sigmentation fault
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