fix bug reading file
[tee-unique] / appendu
1 #!/bin/bash
2 # Copyright (C) 2014 Ian Kelling
3 # This program is under GPL v. 3 or later, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>
4
5 appendu() {
6 local help="Usage: appendu [OPTION]... FILE [LINE_SET]...
7
8 Append unique.
9
10 A LINE_SET is one or more lines. Append LINE_SET to FILE if it does not exist in
11 FILE. If no LINE_SET argument is given, read lines from stdin, and treat each
12 as a single LINE_SET. Appended text is output to the terminal. Duplicate
13 LINE_SETs are treated the same.
14
15 -- stop processing arguments
16 [-h|--help] display this message"
17
18
19 while true; do
20 if [[ $1 == --help || $1 == -h ]]; then
21 echo "$help"
22 return
23 elif [[ $1 == -- ]]; then
24 shift
25 break
26 else
27 break
28 fi
29 done
30
31 if [[ ${#@} == 0 ]]; then
32 echo "error: need 1 or more arguments"
33 echo "$help"
34 return 1
35 fi
36
37 local file="$1"
38 shift
39
40 local new_file=true
41 if [[ -e $file ]]; then
42 new_file=false
43 else
44 local dir="$(dirname "$file")"
45 if [[ ! -d $dir ]]; then
46 echo "appendu error: $dir does not exist"
47 return 1
48 fi
49 fi
50
51 local strings line
52 if (( $# == 0 )); then
53 unset IFS
54 while read -r line; do
55 strings+=( "$line" )
56 done
57 else
58 strings=( "$@" )
59 fi
60
61 if ! $new_file; then
62 if [[ ! -r $file ]]; then
63 echo "appendu error: cannot read or write $file"
64 return 1
65 fi
66 if [[ ! -w $file ]]; then
67 echo "appendu error: cannot read or write $file"
68 return 1
69 fi
70 # fix files with no newline at the end.
71 # the following command won't work right on them otherwise.
72 # e = run script, $a\ means append following text, but there is none,
73 # so sed only does what it always does when it was supposed to modify a file,
74 # which is append a newline if there was none.
75 sed -ie '$a\' "$file"
76 # command substitution removes any trailing newlines, so we have to add
77 # a non-newline ending, we randomly chose "b", then remove it.
78 local content=$(cat "$file"; echo b)
79 content=${content%b}
80 fi
81
82 # we aren't using regex because we want to match strings,
83 # but we also want our match to start at the beginning of a line,
84 # or the beginning of the file, and to end at a line ending.
85 # So we do some slick bash to match this.
86 local start="?(*
87 )"
88 local end="
89 *"
90 local return_code string return_code
91 for string in "${strings[@]}"; do
92 if $new_file || [[ $content != $start"$string"$end ]]; then
93 if ! tee -a "$file"<<<"$string"; then
94 return_code=$?
95 echo "appendu error: error writing to $file"
96 return $return_code
97 fi
98 fi
99 done
100 return 0
101 }
102 appendu "$@"