[Gnumed-devel] Problems restoring database on Mac - unsupported 'editor' command

[Busser, Jim]

It appears that the 'editor' command employed on line 121 of gm-restore_database.sh :

editor ${BACKUP}-roles.sql

is not universal across POSIX systems … while I found these references,

 http://stackoverflow.com/a/6762336 and

 http://unix.stackexchange.com/a/77091

it is in any event not included in Mac OS nor is $EDITOR among the environment variables. As a result, running

gm-restore_database.sh

on Mac fails at line 121 with

line 121: editor: command not found.

Options:

1) insert, into the gm-restore_database.sh script, either

(above the 'editor' line)

alias editor='open -a TextEdit'

or a test like

if Mac

open -a TextEdit ${BACKUP}-roles.sql

else

editor ${BACKUP}-roles.sql

or

2) rely on a Mac maintainer to supply a Mac server package which does the above.

-- Jim