From 2add0d25a030ae29da75d19a958643466f25b8ab Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Simon Ruderich <simon@ruderich.org>
Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2018 18:14:06 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Use command grouping to reduce number of redirects

Suggested by shellcheck and makes the code more readable.
---
 lib.sh                   | 16 +++++++++-------
 shell/crontab.d/setup.sh | 14 ++++++++------
 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib.sh b/lib.sh
index bb60c52..1ce0c33 100644
--- a/lib.sh
+++ b/lib.sh
@@ -196,13 +196,15 @@ generate() {
         printf '%s: generating from "%s" (%s)\n' \
             "$file" "$file$extension" "$1"
 
-        echo '###################################'  >"$file"
-        echo '# WARNING! DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE! #' >>"$file"
-        echo '###################################' >>"$file"
-        echo >>"$file"
-        printf '# It was generated from "%s" on %s.\n' \
-            "$file$extension" "`date`" >>"$file"
-        echo >>"$file"
+        {
+            echo '###################################'
+            echo '# WARNING! DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE! #'
+            echo '###################################'
+            echo
+            printf '# It was generated from "%s" on %s.\n' \
+                "$file$extension" "`date`"
+            echo
+        } > "$file"
 
         file_tmp="$file"
     fi
diff --git a/shell/crontab.d/setup.sh b/shell/crontab.d/setup.sh
index 603e301..0abf260 100755
--- a/shell/crontab.d/setup.sh
+++ b/shell/crontab.d/setup.sh
@@ -46,12 +46,14 @@ fi
 # `set -e` aborts when `mktemp` fails.
 CRONTAB=`mktemp --tmpdir="$DIRECTORY" update-crontab.XXXXXXXXXXXX`
 
-echo '###################################'  >"$CRONTAB"
-echo "$HEADER_WARNING"                     >>"$CRONTAB"
-echo '###################################' >>"$CRONTAB"
-echo >>"$CRONTAB"
-printf '# It was generated from "%s/*" on %s.' \
-    "$DIRECTORY" "`LANG=C date '+%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %z'`" >>"$CRONTAB"
+{
+    echo '###################################'
+    echo "$HEADER_WARNING"
+    echo '###################################'
+    echo
+    printf '# It was generated from "%s/*" on %s.' \
+        "$DIRECTORY" "`LANG=C date '+%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %z'`"
+} > "$CRONTAB"
 
 # Enforce C sort order.
 LC_ALL=C
-- 
2.45.2