On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 3:15 AM, Linda A. Walsh <l...@tlinx.org> wrote:
> In reading some suse startup code (*shiver*),
>
> I came across this construct
>
>
>
> func() {
> local comm ## command from /proc/$pid/stat
>
> for comm; do
> test -s comm || continue
> ppid = pidofproc $comm
> parents="${parents:+parents:}${ppid}"
> done
> }
> -------------------
> Is that valid code? does for have some arcane usage
> to test if the contents of it exists as a file or something?
`for comm;d'o is like: `for comm in "$@";do'
The 2 lines after that are definitely wrong though and should probably look like
test -s $comm || continue
ppid=$(pidofproc $comm)
(without trying to guess what the purpose of this function)
