$() removes trailing newlines from the output

run_tests.sh

@@ -3,9 +3,9 @@ set -e
 
 # Test cppipe functions
 OKs=$(cppipe test/functions_test.cppipe 2>/dev/null | grep OK | wc -l)
-if ! [ $OKs = 12 ]
+if ! [ $OKs = 13 ]
 then
-    echo "Functions test failed: EXPECTED 12 OKs, got $OKs"
+    echo "Functions test failed: EXPECTED 13 OKs, got $OKs"
     exit 1
 fi
 echo Functions test OK!

src/commands.hpp

@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ private:
 void exec(const Cmd&);    /* todo: take Pending? */
 
 /* Execute the command, like the operator() */
-DeadProc run(Cmd&);
+DeadProc run(const Cmd&);
 
 /* Run commands in sequence
    shell:
@@ -156,7 +156,7 @@ PendingCmd operator&(const PendingCmd&, const Cmd&);
 // 	operator const char*() { return c_str();}
 // };
 
-/* Execute a command and capture the output
+/* Execute a command and capture the output, remove trailing newlines like the shell version
    shell:
    var=$(ls)
    becomes:

src/commands.inl

@@ -141,8 +141,17 @@ inline std::string $(const PendingCmd& cmd)
 	while(read_count > 0);
 	// p finished?
 
+	// Remove trailing newlines
+	// i is on the past the end element, go back to end
+	int j = i - 1;
+
+	while(j > 0 && output[j] == '\n')
+		--j;
+
+	i = j + 1;
+
 	// erase the extra elements
-	output.erase(i, output.size() - i);
+	output.erase(i, -1); 	// till the end
 
 	close(p.out);
 
@@ -154,7 +163,7 @@ inline void exec(const Cmd& cmd)
 	exec_or_die(cmd.argv.data());
 }
 
-DeadProc run(const Cmd& cmd)
+inline DeadProc run(const Cmd& cmd)
 {
 	return cmd();
 }

test/functions_test.cppipe

@@ -24,16 +24,17 @@ int main(int argc, char* argv[])
 
 	string out1 = $(ll + "src" | grep + "inl" | grep + "child");
 	if(out1.find("childProcess.inl") != string::npos)
-		cout << "OK 0/11" << endl;
+		cout << "OK 0/12" << endl;
 
 	string out2 = $(echo + "abc" + "def");
-	if(auto len = out2.size(); len != 8)
+	// "abc def" = 7 chars, trailing newlines are stripped by $()
+	if(auto len = out2.size(); len != 7)
 	{
 		cerr << "FAILURE: unexpected output length " << len << endl;
 		exit(1);
 	}
 
-	Cmd success("echo", "OK 1/11");
+	Cmd success("echo", "OK 1/12");
 	Cmd fail("mkdir", ".");
 	Cmd unexpected("echo", "FAILURE");
 	success &&
@@ -45,30 +46,34 @@ int main(int argc, char* argv[])
 	// unexpected &&
 	// unexpected;
 
-	Cmd write_file("echo", "Existing ", " ", "file. OK 2/11");
+	Cmd write_file("echo", "Existing ", " ", "file. OK 2/12");
 
 	write_file > "file.txt";
 	grep + "Existing" < "file.txt";
 
-	echo + "Appended to file OK 3/11" >> "file.txt";
+	echo + "Appended to file OK 3/12" >> "file.txt";
 	grep + "Appended" < "file.txt" &&
 	rm + "file.txt" &&
 	fail ||
-	Cmd("echo", "OK 4/11");
+	Cmd("echo", "OK 4/12");
 
-	echo + "OK 5/11" &&
+	echo + "OK 5/12" &&
-	echo + "OK 6/11",
+	echo + "OK 6/12",
-	Cmd("echo", "OK 7/11");
+	Cmd("echo", "OK 7/12");
 
-	echo + "OK 8/11" &
+	echo + "OK 8/12" &
-	echo + "OK 9/11" &&
+	echo + "OK 9/12" &&
-	echo + "OK 10/11";
+	echo + "OK 10/12";
 
 	// wait for all detached
 	while(wait(nullptr) != -1);
 
-	exec( echo + "OK 11/11" );
+	Cmd run_OK = echo;
+	run_OK.append_args({ "OK 11/12" });
+	run( run_OK );
+
+	exec( echo + "OK 12/12" );
 
 	// todo
-	// exec( echo + $(echo + "OK 11/11") );
+	// exec( echo + $(echo + "OK 11/12") );
 }

todo.txt

@@ -13,7 +13,6 @@ precompiled header cppipe.h
 -Wno-unused-result in install.sh
 file operations, lack of uniformity (C++ vs POSIX)
 Check all return codes and report errors
-shaded obj
 uninstall
 improve debug (the src file shown is the .ii)
 no optimizations option