[Linuxcommand-discuss] a few ideas...

[root <ro...@te...>]

welp.. to make the error exits and such cleaner, i added "-e "\n" to them:

function error_exit 
{
        #####
        #       Function for exit due to fatal program error
        #       Accepts 1 argument
        #               string containing descriptive error message
        #####


        echo -e "\n${PROGNAME}: ${1:-"Unknown Error"}" >&2
        exit 1
}


function term_exit
{
        #####
        #       Function to perform exit if termination signal is trapped
        #       No arguments
        #####

        echo -e "\n${PROGNAME}: Terminated"
        exit
}


function int_exit
{
        #####
        #       Function to perform exit if interrupt signal is trapped
        #       No arguments
        #####

        echo -e "\n${PROGNAME}: Aborted by user"
        exit
}

and... for the program guts... after the if..--help statement...

if [ "$1" = "" ]; then
        helptext
        graceful_exit
fi

... just because the * in the getopts while statement was giving me
problems...

just another $0.02 from me :)

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