#!/bin/sh # # quietrun -- run a command and only allow output if the exit code # didn't reflect success. # Copyright (C) 1999 Adam Spiers # # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by # the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or # (at your option) any later version. # # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the # GNU General Public License for more details. # # For a copy of the GNU General Public License, see # http://www.gnu.org/ or write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., # 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA # # $Id: quietrun,v 1.2 2002/06/12 10:24:42 adams Exp $ # tmpdir=/tmp/quietrun.$$ # Half-heartedly guard against symlink attacks/accidents. There's # still a race. Hmm. Does anyone actually care? [ -e $tmpdir ] && rm -rf $tmpdir if [ -e $tmpdir ]; then echo "Couldn't remove $tmpdir; aborting." exit 1 fi if ! mkdir $tmpdir; then echo "Couldn't create $tmpdir; aborting." exit 1 fi if [ "$1" = '-h' ] || [ "$1" = '--help' ]; then cat <<'EOF' Usage: quietrun [ -m | --merge ] [ ... ] If the merge option is specified, stdout and stderr are merged into stdout, but the output order is preserved. Otherwise they kept separate, but output from stderr only appears after output from stdout. EOF exit 0 fi if [ "$1" = '-m' ] || [ "$1" = '--merge' ]; then shift merge=yes fi if [ $# -eq 0 ]; then echo "quietrun: no command supplied" exit 1 fi if [ "$merge" = 'yes' ]; then if ! "$@" 2>&1 >$tmpdir/both; then [ -e "$tmpdir/both" ] && cat $tmpdir/both fi else if ! "$@" >$tmpdir/stdout 2>$tmpdir/stderr; then [ -e "$tmpdir/stdout" ] && cat $tmpdir/stdout [ -e "$tmpdir/stderr" ] && cat $tmpdir/stderr 1>&2 2>/dev/null fi fi rm -rf $tmpdir