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[feisty_meow.git] / scripts / testing / squelch_unless_error.sh

diff --git a/scripts/testing/squelch_unless_error.sh b/scripts/testing/squelch_unless_error.sh
index b59ca5a197808d81893d8a496bd3896d166c8462..c26fd94b8e5de82f8bd5a951bbd96a6750d888b5 100644 (file)
--- a/scripts/testing/squelch_unless_error.sh
+++ b/scripts/testing/squelch_unless_error.sh
@@ -1,11 +1,13 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 
-# redirects standard out and standard error output to temp files and runs all the parameters to this script as a command.
+# redirects standard out and standard error output to temp files and runs all
+# the parameters to this script as a command.
 # if there is no error, then the files are just deleted.
-# if there was an error, then the two output file are sent to standard out and standard error.
-# an additional error message is sent to standard error.
+# if there was an error, then the two output files are sent to standard out
+# and standard error, and an additional explanatory error message is sent to
+# standard error about the command that failed.
 
-#  echo "squelch args: $(printf -- "[%s] " "${@}")"
+#echo "squelch args: $(printf -- "[%s] " "${@}")"
 
 newout="$(mktemp /tmp/squelch.out.XXXXXX)"
 newerr="$(mktemp /tmp/squelch.err.XXXXXX)"
@@ -23,4 +25,7 @@ fi
 # clean up.
 \rm "$newout" "$newerr"
 
+# pass along the error code we saw, whether success or failure, so that this command has same
+# exit result as the original would have.
+exit $retval