Calling your args with $* will do nasty things if any of your args
has a space in it. "$@" will always do The Right Thing.
Just test the command directly, don't run it and then grab its exit value.
---
functions | 8 +++-----
1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/functions b/functions
index 0acdbbf..9d0aec3 100644
--- a/functions
+++ b/functions
@@ -123,14 +123,12 @@ stat_die() {
status() {
stat_busy "$1"
shift
- $* >/dev/null 2>&1
- if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
+ if "$@" >/dev/null 2>&1; then
stat_done
return 0
- else
- stat_fail
- return 1
fi
+ stat_fail
+ return 1
}
# usage : in_array( $needle, $haystack )
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