tangetools/neno/neno

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#!/bin/bash
: <<=cut
=pod
=head1 NAME
neno - no error no output
=head1 SYNOPSIS
B<neno> I<command1> [\; I<command2> ...]
=head1 DESCRIPTION
B<neno> will print the output from both standard output and standard
error if the composed command returns an error. If the composed
command returns true, the output will be ignored. This is useful for
cron jobs where you only want output if it failed.
=head1 EXAMPLE
Give output for missing file:
neno ls /missing-file
No output if file exists:
neno ls /bin/sh
=head1 AUTHOR
Copyright (C) 2017-2020 Ole Tange,
http://ole.tange.dk and Free Software Foundation, Inc.
=head1 LICENSE
Copyright (C) 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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 3 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.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
=head1 SEE ALSO
B<man>
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_tmp=$(mktemp -d /tmp/no-error.XXXXX)
true >$_tmp/stdout 2>$_tmp/stderr
# Open the tmp-files for reading on file descriptor 21+22
exec 21<$_tmp/stdout 22<$_tmp/stderr
(
# Unlink tmp-files (but keep them open)
rm -rf $_tmp
eval "$@"
) >$_tmp/stdout 2>$_tmp/stderr
_error=$?
if [ $_error == 0 ] ; then
# skip
true
else
cat 0<&21
cat 0<&22 >&2
fi
exit $_error