Re: latex-cjk upload to unstable ...

[Frank Küster <frank@kuesterei.ch>]

Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at> wrote:

> On Die, 11 Jul 2006, Frank Küster wrote:
>> Yes, I noticed that too.  And I suggest to not discard the log when
>> something goes wrong; something like
>> 
>> if sh ./makefont >> log 2>&1; then
>>    echo done
>> else
>>    echo "Error running makefont"
>>    cat log
>> fi
>
> Same for all the other >> log redirections ...

Which calls for a function:

run_command(){
   command="$*"
   echo -n "Running $command ..."
   if $command >> log 2>&1; then
      echo "done"
      rm log
   else
      echo "failed"
      cat log
   fi

run_command sh ./makefont

(note the rm call that I had forgotten).

Regards, Frank

-- 
Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)