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authorTobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr>2022-12-11 01:00:00 +0100
committerTobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr>2022-12-11 01:00:00 +0100
commit6cf6f423340f060e523c007205b691ec68120f50 (patch)
tree3ec8cb815bfdc77716e7dbebd567c2ef16487a65 /etc
parent4a517a012f8cdaa4605ef2f49fd9347e7bc02ba5 (diff)
guix-install.sh: Gracefully fail on | bash.
* etc/guix-install.sh (welcome): Print an error message and a hint if the first read fails.
Diffstat (limited to 'etc')
-rwxr-xr-xetc/guix-install.sh5
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/etc/guix-install.sh b/etc/guix-install.sh
index fb9006b3e2..f008593d84 100755
--- a/etc/guix-install.sh
+++ b/etc/guix-install.sh
@@ -615,7 +615,10 @@ https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/
EOF
# Don't use ‘read -p’ here! It won't display when run non-interactively.
echo -n "Press return to continue..."$'\r'
- read -r char
+ if ! read -r char; then
+ echo
+ die "Can't read standard input. Hint: don't pipe scripts into a shell."
+ fi
if [ "$char" ]; then
echo
echo "...that ($char) was not a return!"