On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 10:17:12PM -0700, Allison Henderson wrote: > On 06/27/2011 09:59 PM, Dave Chinner wrote: > >On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 09:27:25PM -0700, Allison Henderson wrote: > >I seriously dislike conditional parameter passing in shell scripts > >at the best of times, but for filter functions I really think it is > >the wrong thing to do. It significantly obfuscates the working of > >the function for no really good reason. > > > >Just write a new filter function, and factor out the common parts of > >them if the amount of code duplication is sufficient to make it > >desirable to do so. > > > > Ok, it doesn't look like a lot of code, I can separate them into their > own functions. > > >>+ md5sum $testfile | cut -d ' ' -f1 > > > >Why cut out the file name? It's not like it changes at all.... > > > > Oh, it looked like there's a pid attached to the file name, so I > thought I should remove that from the output Oh, it does too. My mistake, too trigger happy, just looking for ways to keep things relatively simple. Maybe using a wrapper function so if we ever need to modify it we only need to change one line of code would acheive the same thing? Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
