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#!/bin/bash
#####################################################################
# Alex Hogen (https://github.com/ahogen)
#
# Run the command provided, redirecting STDERR to STDOUT, effectivly
# reducing all output to a single output pipe, hence the name "spipe".
# This script is also capable of capturing some common kill codes
# and forwarding them to the child process.
#
# This script was originally written for executing some external
# programs in Julia (http://julialang.org/). These external programs
# were being silly and printing errors to stdout and "normal" output
# to stderr. To simplify matters, I wanted a singular pipe on the
# Julia side and this script was the fastest way for me to get that
# accomplished.
#####################################################################
prop_sigint() {
kill -2 ${child}
echo "[spipe.sh] Sent SIGINT to child process (pid ${child})"
}
prop_sigquit() {
kill -3 ${child}
echo "[spipe.sh] Sent SIGTERM to child process (pid ${child})"
}
prop_sigterm() {
kill -15 ${child}
echo "[spipe.sh] Sent SIGTERM to child process (pid ${child})"
}
# Trap and forward common termination signals to the child
trap prop_sigint SIGINT
trap prop_sigquit SIGQUIT
trap prop_sigterm SIGTERM
# Ampersand on the end tells shell not to wait for process to complete,
# but instead continue running.
#echo $@
"$@" 2>&1 &
child=$!
# Wait for child process to finish before exiting
wait ${child}
EC=$?
echo "[spipe.sh] Exiting (code: ${EC})"
exit $EC
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