If 'qpkg -I -v' output spans more than one page, and if you pipe it through more or less, it spews out some of its code along with the expected broken pipe error. May want to have it trap SIGPIPE and/or SIGCHLD to exit gracefully? (i.e. by running 'trap' via bash early on in the qpkg script?) Or perhaps wrap these commands around a subshell that redirects stderr to /dev/null? Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. qpkg -I -v must exceed a single page 2. $ qpkg -I -v | more 3. press 'q' to quit the pager before it has finished Actual Results: /usr/bin/qpkg: line 520: 2726 Done if [ ! \( "${tcheck}" -o "${mcheck}" -o "${info}" -o "${list}" -o "${query}" -o "${mask}" -o ${verb} -gt 0 \) ]; then sed -e "s:-r[0-9]\+$::" -e "s:-[0-9][^-]*$::" | sort -k2 | uniq -f1; else if [ ! \( "${tcheck}" -o "${mcheck}" -o "${info}" -o "${list}" -o "${query}" -o "${mask}" -o ${verb} -lt 2 \) ]; then sort -k2 | uniq -f1; else cat; fi; fi 2727 Broken pipe | sed -e "s:^iii ${X}/${X}:${BR}\1/${CY}\2${STAR}${NO}:" -e "s:^uuu ${X}/${X}:${BR}\1/${YL}\2${NO}:" -e "s:^vvv \(.*\)$:${BL}\1${NO}:" -e "s:^obj ::;s:^sym ::;s:^dir ::" Expected Results: Ideally, no error message/spew upon quitting the pager early. Portage 2.0.48-r5 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r1) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.20-gentoo-r5 i686 Pentium III (Coppermine) GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" USE="x86 oss 3dnow apm avi crypt cups encode foomaticdb gif jpeg libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmx mpeg ncurses nls pdflib png quicktime spell truetype xml2 xmms xv zlib gdbm berkdb slang readline arts svga java sdl gpm perl python esd imlib oggvorbis motif opengl mozilla ldap X qt kde tcpd pam ssl mbox -gnome -gtk -maildir" COMPILER="gcc3" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"AUTOCLEAN="yes" SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" FEATURES="sandbox ccache" CFLAGS="-mcpu=i686 -O3 -pipe" CXXFLAGS="-mcpu=i686 -O3 -pipe" ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" MAKEOPTS="-j2"
the fact that the code is spewed out is a 'feature' of bash ... bash is just showing the code that was run and was given the signal
As Spanky said.
