Re: [Mondo-devel] I wrote a script to make burning DVD +/-R a little eaiser... Opinions desired

[Dan E. <da...@eg...>]

Brad Sims wrote:

> Darn it, I noticed that mondo doesn't like having a -E called
> and not having anything to put in there :/ So I did a simple 
> options list
> 
> Why can't I get this to work?
> 
> <begin code>
> #!/bin/sh
> INCLUDE="/foo ; evil -a /"
> 
> OPTIONS="No Quit "
>  select opt in $OPTIONS; do
> 
> if [ "$opt" = "No" ]; then
>       echo $INCLUDE | grep \; > /dev/null
>       b=`$?`
>          if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
>             echo "     Naughty, Dangermouse..."
>             echo "$?"
>             echo "$INCLUDE"
>          else
>             echo "It woiked"
>             echo "$?"
>             echo "$INCLUDE"
>          fi
> else
>        exit
> fi
> done
> <end code>
> 
> output is as follows:
> 1) No
> 2) Quit
> #? 1
> It woiked
> 0
> /foo ; evil -a /
> 
> Now clearly $? should be returning a 1 here... Something
> is off here.
> 


No, it actually is working. Grep finds the ; in $INCLUDE where that 
$OPTIONS is "/foo ; evil -a /". That is why the echo says that and that 
is why you get a 0 for $? (which does not need the ` marks BTW)

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-- Dan