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| author |   Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org> | 2008-11-23 19:47:25 +0000 |
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| committer | Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org> | 2008-11-23 19:47:25 +0000 |
| commit | 1399e02fdc79f9e365724f001f4bcbf59ca35ae3 (patch) | |
| tree | 306102d38e767841d752871dc979f5c5a12159f9 /bin | |
| parent | Fix the code from bug #245358 so that it's guaranteed to traverse all the (diff) | |
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Bug #188780 - Make the read_int() function show a more human readable error
message, instead of the 'value too great for base' message when the user
enters an invalid value such as '1y'.
svn path=/main/trunk/; revision=12053
Diffstat (limited to 'bin')
| -rwxr-xr-x | bin/etc-update | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/bin/etc-update b/bin/etc-update index 4d29007f..af200f6b 100755 --- a/bin/etc-update +++ b/bin/etc-update @@ -223,7 +223,8 @@ read_int() { read my_input # failed integer conversions will break a loop unless they're enclosed # in a subshell. - echo "${my_input}" | ( declare -i x; read x) && break + echo "${my_input}" | ( declare -i x; read x) 2>/dev/null && break + echo -n "Value '$my_input' is not valid. Please enter an integer value:" >&2 done echo ${my_input} } |