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| author | Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org> | 2008-11-23 19:48:54 +0000 |
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| committer | Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org> | 2008-11-23 19:48:54 +0000 |
| commit | a41448867295199ac9cafcfea9babce014e0e16b (patch) | |
| tree | d367885fdd567b8a899b78d02b374c995a60f959 | |
| parent | 6a20da4d5d2ddd87ce98e93da60922feb2e6948d (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'. (trunk r12053)
svn path=/main/branches/2.1.6/; revision=12054
| -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 4d29007f9..af200f6b4 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} } |