On Thu, Jun 27, 2019 at 05:39:14PM -0700, Dan Mahoney (Gushi) wrote:
> Is there any good way that people would recommend parsing alias and map
> files? The closest I've come would be counting the number of lines of
> output to stderr, rather than looking at exit code, but that still seems
> contrived.
One possible work-around is:
ln -f foo foo.tmp
postalias hash:foo.tmp
gotkeys=$(postmap -s hash:foo.tmp | pcregrep -c '^[^\s#]')
wanted=$( (cat foo.tmp; echo "@ @") | pcregrep -c '^[^\s#]' )
if [ "$gotkeys" -eq "$wanted" ]; then
/bin/mv foo.tmp.db foo.db
else
# Error ...
/bin/rm -f foo.tmp foo.tmp.db
exit 1
fi
--
Viktor.
