Re: Basta: protecting $_ variable.

On 2024-04-10, Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> wrote:

On 10.04.2024 07:29, Kaz Kylheku wrote:

[...]
 
The trap setup for catching the SIGWINCH and SIGALRM signals now looks
like this:
 
  trap 'basta_uln_save=$_; basta.update_status; : "$basta_uln_save"' ALRM WINCH
 
instead of just
 
  trap basta.update_status ALRM WINCH

>
I know that this looks like a hack, but since 'update_status' needs no
arguments you could also more simply just write...?
>
    trap 'basta.update_status "$_"' ALRM WINCH
>
(Not sure whether introducing a global variable and supplementary code
or this hack is "better". Just mentioning it for a possible variant.)

Nice streamlining; I changed to this.

One command, and no extra variable is better.

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