commit a750ed7823181685a78ff225482ec51a5ae4a0a9
author Michael Walsh <micwalsh@us.ibm.com> Tue Jul 24 16:18:09 2018 -0500
committer George Keishing <gkeishin@in.ibm.com> Thu Jul 26 14:35:35 2018 +0000
tree 824b96b237f740c37c9929b5387a190ce463a05a
parent 6a9bd143cc34f428508f498979bd9974bda4add5

Improve shell_cmd error output when quiet=1.

When quiet is 1, the "Issuing:" line does not get printed.  So, when
an error occurs, the user has no idea what the failing command is.
With this change, the command_string contents will be included in the
error output.

Change-Id: I23813308397476eae8a70b2bd8c2c6af98e98030
Signed-off-by: Michael Walsh <micwalsh@us.ibm.com>

lib/gen_cmd.py

diff --git a/lib/gen_cmd.py b/lib/gen_cmd.py
index 81f64f0..52f255a 100644
--- a/lib/gen_cmd.py
+++ b/lib/gen_cmd.py
@@ -432,6 +432,8 @@
         if shell_rc in allowed_shell_rcs:
             break
         err_msg = "The prior shell command failed.\n"
+        if quiet:
+            err_msg += gp.sprint_var(command_string)
         if command_timed_out:
             err_msg += gp.sprint_var(command_timed_out)
             err_msg += gp.sprint_var(time_out)