Re: Switching off a shellcommand with empty list variable

[Jeremy Mates]

* David Baird <dave@riverside-cms.co.uk>
> The perl one-liner returns a colon-separated list of ports that need
> to be installed. The problem is that if there are no missing ports,
> the shellcommand still gets called. Is there any way I can set a class
> if $(missing_ports) is empty?

Perhaps wrap portupgrade and abort if the arguments list is empty?

  "/usr/local/sbin/wrap-portupgrade $(missing_ports)"


  #!/bin/sh
  [ -z "$1" ] && exit
  exec /usr/local/sbin/portupgrade $@

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