commit 3d5ebc3bf5b0a55a33fbba51c1087ecab68bb4e5
parent e2f247cf9364ea0d441ae4c7b2f0aaa427e03dae
Author: Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@gnu.org>
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2020 10:45:47 -0500
work around recutils problem wrt renaming /tmp/FOO to TARGET
- add explanatory comment
- set TMPDIR to current-working-directory
- export it
Diffstat:
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/http-status-codes/extend.sh b/http-status-codes/extend.sh
@@ -6,6 +6,12 @@ TARGET="$1"
shift
cat "$@" > ${TARGET}
+# There is a problem w/ some versions of recutils that signals
+# error on rename from /tmp/FOO in recset(1). Work around that
+# by using current working directory as TMPDIR.
+TMPDIR=`pwd`
+export TMPDIR
+
for n in `seq 100 599`
do
VAL=`recsel -e "Value = $n" -P Description iana.tmp || true`