On 07/13/2009 01:26 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
{ echo "set -$-"; COMMAND; } | sh
This does it, yes.
(You've been using too many fifos for the parallel autotest :-).
Paolo
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According to Alfred M. Szmidt on 7/13/2009 5:06 AM:
> { set +o; COMMAND; } | sh
Required by POSIX, but some older shells don't handle it well. Solaris
/bin/sh appears to just ignore it. Older ash gives output that cannot be
reparsed as valid c
Hi autoguys,
I am piping the output of a script to the shell, and using
COMMAND | sh
would not respect the -e/-x settings of the outer shell. I have thought
of two replacements:
{ set +o; COMMAND; } | sh
COMMAND | . /dev/fd/0
The second looks nicer, but it's
Hi autoguys,
I am piping the output of a script to the shell, and using
COMMAND | sh
would not respect the -e/-x settings of the outer shell. I have thought
of two replacements:
{ set +o; COMMAND; } | sh
COMMAND | . /dev/fd/0
The second looks nicer, but it's not portable. Actually I
