Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
> It turns out that this doesn't actually work, and I can't find a
> workaround. In Bash and Solaris's /bin/sh this executes until "dies
> here". The problem is that I can't use the subshell trick, since the
> gettext.sh inclusion has to be done in the current shell (I checked,
> tests will fail).
>
> #!/bin/sh
> (. does-not-exist.sh)
> echo "A subshell made it! ret = $?"
> . does-not-exist.sh
> # dies here
> echo "A real shell made it! ret = $?"
>
> Is there some clever shellscript trick that I'm missing, or will I
> have to resort to modifying the file at `make' time for this to work
> everywhere?
Works for me in bash (4.0.35), but fails the way you say in dash (if
only I could figure out the option that tells me the version!).
This works however:
type does-not-exist.sh 2>/dev/null && . does-not-exist.sh
I suspect it only works if the script is executable, as otherwise type
would not find it (but . would). But at least on my system, it is.
--
Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html