Thanks for sharing this! TIL! Chris Gauthier Senior Network Engineer | Comscore t +1 (503) 331-2704 | cgauth...@comscore.com comscore.com This e-mail (including any attachments) may contain information that is private, confidential, or protected by attorney-client or other privilege. If you received this e-mail in error, please delete it from your system and notify sender. -----Original Message----- From: "Piegorsch, Weylin William" <wey...@bu.edu> Date: Tuesday, June 18, 2019 at 2:03 AM To: Jean Benoit <j...@unistra.fr> Cc: "Gauthier, Chris" <cgauth...@comscore.com>, Michael Newton <mnew...@pofp.com>, Vacheslav Zouhairy <m_zouha...@skno.by>, "rancid-discuss@shrubbery.net" <rancid-discuss@shrubbery.net> Subject: Re: [rancid] Unable to figure out "end of run not found"
> you can even put redirects That's a neat trick!!! I'll have to remember that one; thanks! __ weylin On 6/17/19, 5:27 PM, "Jean Benoit" <j...@unistra.fr> wrote: On Mon, Jun 17, 2019 at 09:05:13PM +0000, Piegorsch, Weylin William wrote: > I actually don't use the semicolon. > Not sure if this is bash specific, sh specific, or posix general, but > without the semicolon it sets the global environment variable only for the > duration of that command following the variable definition, and unset it > upon returning control to the cli. See also your "export" comment, which > has correlating implications regarding environment vs namespace vs scope. > But I'm not an experienced programmer, and don't pretend to grok the > various nuances, benefits, and pitfalls known by those who actually know > what they're doing, so if using the semicolon is better I all ears. You are right: ; is not necessary. NOPIPE=yes rancid -d -t type devicename is is a perfectly valid syntax according to POSIX Shell Grammar Rules. It works with bash, dash, ksh, zsh and other shells. https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2fpubs.opengroup.org%2fonlinepubs%2f9699919799%2futilities%2fV3_chap02.html%23tag_18_10_02&c=E,1,pVeiRZ33eh0bANTtrPcyWLXgDYYcEhv1fVgAMKs-rqhpxiQGGKwtaHnc1ENunuBCFwIl6XJo0fGwJdkcHgduuUt2gpDkO7h_-c4J99skKxG0vy0,&typo=1 see "simple_command" syntax and rule 7, which defines "ASSIGNMENT_WORD". simple_command : cmd_prefix cmd_word cmd_suffix | cmd_prefix cmd_word | cmd_prefix | cmd_name cmd_suffix | cmd_name cmd_prefix : io_redirect | cmd_prefix io_redirect | ASSIGNMENT_WORD | cmd_prefix ASSIGNMENT_WORD You don't need the ; and you dont need export, and you can even put redirects, as long as assignments are before the command. Example : XYZ=foo </tmp/x >/tmp/y A=1 B=bar mycommand myarg -- Jean
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