BSD Ports

devel/pipestatus 0.7.0 DragonFly

UNIX/POSIX shell helper for running pipes safely

System
DragonFly
Repository
DPorts
Maintainer
[email protected] (as in FreeBSD)
License
PD
Categories
devel
Package size
2.7 KiB, 3.9 KiB installed

Description

pipestatus - source file for POSIX shell that allows to obtain an exit status of every program in a pipe.

                    MOTIVATION

When we program in shell we often run pipes like this

prog1 args1 \| prog2 args2 \| ... \| progN argsN

POSIX says that exit status of pipe is the exit status of LAST program in it, i.e. progN in our example. That is, exit status of all other programs in pipe is silently ignored. But in many situations exit status of all programs in pipe should be checked to make program robust. Some shells like BASH and ZSH have special extensions for doing this but POSIX shell unfortunately doesn't provide an EASY way for doing this.

In order to solve the problem, described above pipestatus was written.

In the other systems

The newest version among them is 0.7.0, as upstream numbers it.

SystemPortVersionVulnerabilitiesStatusMaintainerLast update
DragonFlydevel/pipestatus0.7.0 newestnone known-[email protected]-
FreeBSDdevel/pipestatus0.7.0 newestnone known-[email protected]-
NetBSDdevel/pipestatus0.6.0none known-[email protected]-
HardenedBSDdevel/pipestatus0.7.0 newestno data-[email protected]-
GhostBSDdevel/pipestatus0.7.0 newestno data-[email protected]-

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Install

Binary package:

pkg install pipestatus

From DPorts:

cd /usr/dports/devel/pipestatus && make install clean

Dependency graph

Ports that need it on the left, what it needs to run on the right; at most 8 of each. "Dependencies" below lists them all.

Dependencies

Required by 1

Configuration

No options to configure.

Service scripts
none

Message after installing

===>   NOTICE:

The pipestatus port currently does not have a maintainer. As a result, it is
more likely to have unresolved issues, not be up-to-date, or even be removed in
the future. To volunteer to maintain this port, please create an issue at:

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla

More information about port maintainership is available at:

https://docs.freebsd.org/en/articles/contributing/#ports-contributing