From: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ca>
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2013 07:07:17 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: How hard can it be to write a portable shell function that does nothing?
X-Git-Url: https://diplodocus.org/git/nmh/commitdiff_plain/5b2bae6c36887b9ed4d30f6ff877c3846fa1f3b6?hp=-c

How hard can it be to write a portable shell function that does nothing?

Pretty hard, apparently :-P
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5b2bae6c36887b9ed4d30f6ff877c3846fa1f3b6
diff --git a/test/common.sh.in b/test/common.sh.in
index cd99ad50..3c916274 100644
--- a/test/common.sh.in
+++ b/test/common.sh.in
@@ -96,8 +96,14 @@ if [ -t 1 ] ; then
   }
 else
   # don't emit anything if stdout is not connected to a tty.
-  progress_update () :
-  progress_done () :
+  progress_update ()
+  {
+	:
+  }
+  progress_done ()
+  {
+	:
+  }
 fi
 
 check_for_hard_links () {