Strange grep behavior

[Bernstein, Gary]

This morning I wanted to review all the products that were NOT deprecated. As far as I can tell, reposado doesn't have any way of doing it. So, I figured I would pipe the output to grep, but for some reason I get an error when I do that:

/usr/local/reposado/repoutil --products | grep -L Deprecated

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "/usr/local/reposado/repoutil", line 587, in <module>

    main()

  File "/usr/local/reposado/repoutil", line 556, in main

    list_products(sort_order=options.sort, reverse_sort=options.reverse)

  File "/usr/local/reposado/repoutil", line 243, in list_products

    print_product_line(product['key'], products, catalog_branches)

  File "/usr/local/reposado/repoutil", line 180, in print_product_line

    deprecation_state)

  File "/usr/local/reposado/reposadolib/reposadocommon.py", line 173, in print_stdout

    sys.stdout.flush()

IOError: [Errno 32] Broken pipe

However the following command works just fine:

/usr/local/reposado/repoutil --products | grep Deprecated

Thoughts?

Thanks

-Gary

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[Greg Neagle]

From man grep:

       -L, --files-without-match

              Suppress normal output; instead print the name of each input file from which no output would normally have been printed.  The scanning will stop on the first

              match.

You aren't passing a list of filenames to grep, so that flag is not appropriate. You want:

       -v, --invert-match

              Invert the sense of matching, to select non-matching lines.

Try:

/usr/local/reposado/repoutil --products | grep -v Deprecated

-Greg

[Bernstein, Gary]

Thanks.

I need more caffeine!

What surprised me was that it looked like repoutil was giving the error.

-Gary

[Raul Cuza]

It is! The pipe is broken when using the -L option, so the python
script errors out.