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authorJoey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>2011-08-15 20:17:48 (GMT)
committerJoey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>2011-08-15 20:17:48 (GMT)
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IFS clobbering workaround
This is not because of too much haskell programming. It's because using IFS in shell is always followed by chasing down IFS clobbering portability bugs in shell, no matter how careful you are.
Diffstat (limited to 'functions')
-rw-r--r--functions7
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/functions b/functions
index 74f0e0b..80844de 100644
--- a/functions
+++ b/functions
@@ -6,14 +6,15 @@ smallyes() {
}
in_path () {
- IFS=":" _in_path "$1"
-}
-_in_path () {
+ local OLD_IFS="$IFS"
+ IFS=":"
for dir in $PATH; do
if [ -x "$dir/$1" ]; then
+ IFS="$OLD_IFS"
return 0
fi
done
+ IFS="$OLD_IFS"
return 1
}