01-30-2017
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Originally Posted by
Peasant
So if you have small, efficient script with no nested subshells, are backquotes still the lowest denominator e.g will it run without magic cookie on any unix OS ever produced ?
I would never run the risk of having whatever shell executing my code. Out of pure paranoia you won't see any script without a shebang line stating the shell it is intended to run in explicitly.
You see, i once wrote shell scripts for an installed base of ~22k systems worldwide, ranging from IBM 42Ts and 43Ps (desktop systems) up to big SP/2s and everything in between. Believe me, whatever administrative horror you are able to think of - 5 systems somewhere had exactly this and then some.
root not allowed to write a file in
/tmp? Filesystems with no more free inodes? A user named "root" but with a non-0 UID? I have seen all this and more.
Most of my scripts are not "small" therefore. Not, because they do so much, but because they take extreme care of error handling and take nothing i can think of for granted.
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Originally Posted by
Peasant
Example would be a simple mv script using basename command in subshell.
basename is IMHO a bad example. I would do that with parameter expansion as (in the interest of speed) anything else that could be done with it.
bakunin
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NAME
bundle-exec - Execute a command in the context of the bundle
SYNOPSIS
bundle exec command
DESCRIPTION
This command executes the command, making all gems specified in the Gemfile(5) available to require in Ruby programs.
Essentially, if you would normally have run something like rspec spec/my_spec.rb, and you want to use the gems specified in the Gemfile(5)
and installed via bundle install(1) bundle-install.1.html, you should run bundle exec rspec spec/my_spec.rb.
Note that bundle exec does not require that an executable is available on your shell's $PATH.
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If you use the --binstubs flag in bundle install(1) bundle-install.1.html, Bundler will automatically create a directory (which defaults to
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After using --binstubs, bin/rspec spec/my_spec.rb is identical to bundle exec rspec spec/my_spec.rb.
ENVIRONMENT MODIFICATIONS
bundle exec makes a number of changes to the shell environment, then executes the command you specify in full.
o make sure that it's still possible to shell out to bundle from inside a command invoked by bundle exec (using $BUNDLE_BIN_PATH)
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o make sure that if bundler is invoked in the subshell, it uses the same Gemfile (by setting BUNDLE_GEMFILE)
o add -rbundler/setup to $RUBYOPT, which makes sure that Ruby programs invoked in the subshell can see the gems in the bundle
It also modifies Rubygems:
o disallow loading additional gems not in the bundle
o modify the gem method to be a no-op if a gem matching the requirements is in the bundle, and to raise a Gem::LoadError if it's not
o Define Gem.refresh to be a no-op, since the source index is always frozen when using bundler, and to prevent gems from the system leak-
ing into the environment
o Override Gem.bin_path to use the gems in the bundle, making system executables work
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Shelling out
When shelling out (using the system or backticks methods, for example), Bundler's environment changes will propagate to the subshell envi-
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environment variables to what they were before Bundler was activated. For example:
Bundler.with_clean_env do
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At present, the Rubygems plugin system requires all files named rubygems_plugin.rb on the load path of any installed gem when any Ruby code
requires rubygems.rb. This includes executables installed into the system, like rails, rackup, and rspec.
Since Rubygems plugins can contain arbitrary Ruby code, they commonly end up activating themselves or their dependencies.
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