1 files changed, 20 insertions, 34 deletions

diff --git a/apt-panopticommon.lua b/apt-panopticommon.lua
index 53bd674..d9293f6 100644
--- a/apt-panopticommon.lua
+++ b/apt-panopticommon.lua
@@ -424,43 +424,24 @@ APT.testing = function(t, host)
     return false
 end
 
-APT.execute = function (s, logit)
-    if nil == logit then logit = true end
-    if logit then D("  executing - &nbsp; <code>" .. s .. "</code>") end
-    --[[ Damn os.execute()
-        Lua 5.1 says it returns "a status code, which is system-dependent"
-        Lua 5.2 says it returns true/nil, "exit"/"signal", the status code.
-        I'm getting 7168 or 0.  No idea what the fuck that is.
-    local ok, rslt, status = os.execute(s)
-    ]]
-    local f = io.popen(s .. ' ; echo "$?"', 'r')
-    local status = ""
-    local result = ""
-    -- The last line will be the command's returned status, collect everything else in result.
-    for l in f:lines() do
-        result = result .. status .. "\n"
-        status = l
-    end
-    return status, result
-end
-
-APT.fork = function(s)
-    D("  forking - &nbsp; <code>" .. s .. "</code>")
-    os.execute(s .. " &")
-end
-
-
 APT.exe = function(c)
-    local exe = {status = 0, result = ''}
-    exe.cmd = c .. ' '
-    exe.log = false
+    local exe = {status = 0, result = '', log = true, cmd = c .. ' '}
 
     function exe:log()
         self.log = true
         return self
     end
     function exe:Nice(c)
-        self.cmd = self.cmd .. 'ionice -c3 nice -n 19 ' .. c .. ' '
+        if nil == c then
+            self.cmd = 'ionice -c3 nice -n 19 ' .. self.cmd
+        else
+            self.cmd = self.cmd .. 'ionice -c3 nice -n 19 ' .. c .. ' '
+        end
+        return self
+    end
+    function exe:also(c)
+        if nil == c then c = '' else c = ' ' .. c end
+        self.cmd = self.cmd .. ';' .. c .. ' '
         return self
     end
     function exe:And(c)
@@ -482,7 +463,12 @@ APT.exe = function(c)
         return self
     end
     function exe:Do()
-        if self.log then D("  executing - &nbsp; <code>" .. self.cmd .. "</code>") end
+    --[[    "The condition expression of a control structure can return any
+            value. Both false and nil are considered false. All values different
+            from nil and false are considered true (in particular, the number 0
+            and the empty string are also true)."
+        says the docs, I beg to differ.]]
+        if true == self.log then D("  executing - &nbsp; <code>" .. self.cmd .. "</code>") end
         --[[ Damn os.execute()
             Lua 5.1 says it returns "a status code, which is system-dependent"
             Lua 5.2 says it returns true/nil, "exit"/"signal", the status code.
@@ -491,6 +477,7 @@ APT.exe = function(c)
         ]]
         local f = io.popen(self.cmd .. ' ; echo "$?"', 'r')
         -- The last line will be the command's returned status, collect everything else in result.
+        self.status = ''        -- Otherwise the result starts with 0.
         for l in f:lines() do
             self.result = self.result .. self.status .. "\n"
             self.status = l
@@ -500,14 +487,13 @@ APT.exe = function(c)
     end
     function exe:fork()
         self.cmd = '{ ' .. self.cmd .. '; } &'
-        if self.log then D("  forking - &nbsp; <code>" .. self.cmd .. "</code>") end
+        if true == self.log then D("  forking - &nbsp; <code>" .. self.cmd .. "</code>") end
         os.execute(self.cmd)
         return self
     end
     return exe
 end
 
-
 APT.checkExes = function (exe)
     local count = io.popen('ps x | grep "' .. exe .. '" | grep -v " grep " | grep -v "flock -n apt-panopticon.lock " | wc -l'):read("*l")
     D(count .. " " .. exe .. " commands still running.")
@@ -650,7 +636,7 @@ end
 
 APT.now = 0
 local status
-status, APT.now = APT.execute('TZ="GMT" ls -l --time-style="+%s" results/stamp | cut -d " " -f 6-6')
+APT.now = APT.exe('TZ="GMT" ls -l --time-style="+%s" results/stamp | cut -d " " -f 6-6'):Do().result
 APT.now = tonumber(APT.now)
 local start = 'now-1month'
 local step = '10min'