[tex-live] updmap and /

[Zdenek Wagner]

2009/2/24 Norbert Preining <preining at logic.at>:
> On Di, 24 Feb 2009, Zdenek Wagner wrote:
>> > { cd "$tmpdir" && cd .. && rm -rf "$tmpdir" }
>> >
>> > be better? unless of course we do not have read access to the directory
>> > above $tmpdir
>> >
>> And why is it necessary to "cd" anywhere? I would do it like that:
>> rm -rf "$tmpdir" if -d "$tmpdir";
>
> All good questions, but until we rewrite updmap in perl we will not have
> a decent solution.
>
> And until nobody can confirm with decent argumentation that the approach
> Thomas Esser took here was overdoing it and there are no circumstances
> where this isn't necessary, we probably will not hack around in those
> shell scripts.
>
I forgot it's a shell script. In that case the following should work:

[ -d "$tmpdir" ] && rm -rf "$tmpdir"

> Best wishes
>
> Norbert
>
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