Re: [A-a-p-user] Running a command if any files are copied.

[Bram M. <Br...@mo...>]

Mike Ellis wrote:

> Thanks, Bram, the script works correctly now for one file.  (I had to
> change :cp to :copy).

Sorry, I forget the synax of commands sometimes.  Actually, I'm
wondering if Aap will become simpler to use when the Aap commands would
take arguments like the Unix commands.

> As for udevstart, it should  run _one time only _ if one or more
> changed files are installed.  The situation is almost analogous to
> compile and link, where the linker runs only if any files are
> compiled.
> 
> This seems to me a fairly common need, e.g. to install changed
> configuration files for a daemon and conditionally restart the daemon.

You could set a variable in the block where the file is copied, and then
at the "finally" target check for it:

	didit = 0

	didi : dodo
	  :copy {f} $source $target
	  didit = 1

	...

	finally:
		@if _no.didit:
		   :sys run the command

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