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add hint to use /bin/sh -e consistently (thanks, Steven!)

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Signed-off-by: Nico Schottelius <nico@bento.schottelius.org>
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Nico Schottelius 2013-08-29 11:28:53 +02:00
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docs/man/man7/cdist-troubleshooting.text
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@ -31,7 +31,8 @@ it does not lead to an error. And thus cdist sees the exit 0
code of the last echo line instead of the failing command.
All scripts executed by cdist carry the -e flag.
To prevent the above from happening, there are two solutions available:
To prevent the above from happening, there are three solutions available,
two of which can be used in the calling script:
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# Execute as before, but abort on failure
sh -e "$__manifest/special"
@ -40,6 +41,16 @@ sh -e "$__manifest/special"
. "$__manifest/special"
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The third solution is to include a shebang header in every script
you write to use the -e flag:
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% cat ~/.cdist/manifest/special
#!/bin/sh -e
...
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SEE ALSO
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- cdist(1)