From 6cf6f423340f060e523c007205b691ec68120f50 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2022 01:00:00 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] guix-install.sh: Gracefully fail on | bash. * etc/guix-install.sh (welcome): Print an error message and a hint if the first read fails. --- etc/guix-install.sh | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/etc/guix-install.sh b/etc/guix-install.sh index fb9006b3e2..f008593d84 100755 --- a/etc/guix-install.sh +++ b/etc/guix-install.sh @@ -615,7 +615,10 @@ https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/ EOF # Don't use ‘read -p’ here! It won't display when run non-interactively. echo -n "Press return to continue..."$'\r' - read -r char + if ! read -r char; then + echo + die "Can't read standard input. Hint: don't pipe scripts into a shell." + fi if [ "$char" ]; then echo echo "...that ($char) was not a return!"