still trying to uniquify

sorting was apparently not the problem last time, although we have seen it be a problem before.  the checkin on a host with feisty meow in home is still running the checkins twice, and this change just adds some debugging to see wtf.

diff --git a/scripts/core/functions.sh b/scripts/core/functions.sh
index c8bcfe34b46715cf0436db59a51c20b6d8758b9e..af8a852f7eb809f69dd76299b992d4760dbf6698 100644 (file)
--- a/scripts/core/functions.sh
+++ b/scripts/core/functions.sh
@@ -84,10 +84,13 @@ if [ -z "$skip_all" ]; then
   function uniquify()
   {
     # change the eol character so things are easier.
+echo "list before uniquify: $*" >~/uniquify.out
     HOLDIFS="$IFS"
     IFS=' '
     # do the uniquification.
-    echo $* | sort | uniq
+    local chewed="$(echo $* | sort | uniq)"
+    echo $chewed
+echo "list after uniquify: $chewed" >~/uniquify.out
     # return the former eol characters to their place.
     IFS="$HOLDIFS"
   }