Re: script coded, doesnt work, when spawned with -x works

[Alex fxmbsw7 Ratchev]

ohhhhhhhh i have the data parsing stream in
not the user input tty
thank you =))

On Thu, Mar 31, 2022 at 11:23 PM Alex fxmbsw7 Ratchev <fxmbsw7@gmail.com>
wrote:

> .. i replaced the -p with a printf before
> the read just exits
>
> .. no idea
>
> On Thu, Mar 31, 2022 at 11:18 PM Alex fxmbsw7 Ratchev <fxmbsw7@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> may there be some read -p length overflow bug
>>
>> it shows
>> as it should
>> read as last command
>>
>> <..long -p input>
>> Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License
>> 123)
>>  //www.fsf.org/about/dmca-notice
>>   Copyright Infringement Notification
>> >' -N 1 read
>>
>> # read variable of read command
>>
>> but exits..
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 31, 2022 at 11:16 PM Alex fxmbsw7 Ratchev <fxmbsw7@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Mar 31, 2022 at 11:13 PM Alex fxmbsw7 Ratchev <fxmbsw7@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Mar 31, 2022 at 10:31 PM Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 3/31/22 12:16 PM, Alex fxmbsw7 Ratchev wrote:
>>>>> > i coded [ or tried ] to code a ' urlhop '
>>>>> >
>>>>> > script url
>>>>> > shows menu of links with titles to select to next fetch
>>>>> >
>>>>> > now just, why doesnt it work
>>>>> > i try bash run gnu.org it doesnt work, nothing back
>>>>> > i do bash -x run gnu.org it displayed a menu and waited for input
>>>>> >
>>>>> > run is the bash part ( eg urlhop )
>>>>> > and urlhop.gawk is the html parser
>>>>> >
>>>>> > proof i have :
>>>>> >
>>>>> > bash run gnu.org
>>>>> >
>>>>> > 0 exit 4621s old @1648743015.301939 == Thu Mar 2022-03-31
>>>>> 16:10:15.301939
>>>>> > +0000
>>>>> >
>>>>> >
>>>>> > bash -x run gnu.org
>>>>> >
>>>>> > <snip>
>>>>> > 9)
>>>>> >   #content
>>>>> >
>>>>> > 10)
>>>>> >   /gnu/gnu.html
>>>>> >    ABOUT&nbsp;GNU
>>>>> > 11)
>>>>> >   /philosophy/philosophy.html
>>>>> >    PHILOSOPHY
>>>>> > 12)
>>>>> >
>>>>> >
>>>>> > you see its buggy i have to fix it but i cant as long as it only
>>>>> works with
>>>>> > -x
>>>>>
>>>>> My bet is that it doesn't `work' with -x, but that you interpret the -x
>>>>> output as some kind of result.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> yea i misinterpreted, .. it exited also no read user menu loop
>>> i saw menu entries though .. in set -x .. which partly i pasted from it
>>> seems
>>>
>>>
>>>> hm i dont have any related code in use at all
>>>>
>>>> i run bash run gnu.org and expected a shit
>>>> it exits 0
>>>>
>>>> i ran with -x to see where its hung
>>>> it .. maybe ran maybe not yes i gotta check im not sure here sorry
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> How do you expect this to work, anyway? You consume the entire standard
>>>>> input in urlhop.reader, throwing everything into one long string, then
>>>>> try
>>>>> to read again? What do you expect that second read to do? Why?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> its the simple principe of recursed function use
>>>> where in meta its 1. fetch url 2. analyze url 3. read output of parsing
>>>> and proceed further, like beging with 1. and new url again
>>>>
>>>> i .. err .. read again to make input sure
>>>> user might type b which is no entry
>>>>
>>>> ..
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer
>>>>>                  ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates
>>>>> Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU    chet@case.edu
>>>>> http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/
>>>>>
>>>>