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Authored by aryeeteygerald_rogers.com on Jan 21 2019, 5:55 PM.
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delphij
Summary

Previously, the $PAGER was opened even with no contents.
Applies patch to no longer do this.

PR: 194547,208497

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Verified expected behaviour in interactive sh shell

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delphij requested changes to this revision.Jan 22 2019, 5:26 AM

I like this change in principle, but I think you could simplify the code a little bit (see my comments in line).

usr.sbin/freebsd-update/freebsd-update.sh
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Could you please refactor this to something like:

cat - modifiedfiles <<- EOF | ${PAGER}

The following files are affected by updates,
but no changes have
...
EOF

instead?

This revision now requires changes to proceed.Jan 22 2019, 5:26 AM
  • Use HEREDOC/cat instead of multiple echos

This is indeed much nicer.

One last change request -- could you please use ${PAGER} instead of $PAGER while there? The change looks otherwise fine to me.

This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Jan 24 2019, 5:51 AM

Forgot the review link; committed in rS343407