I've come across the following function in a React project shell script and am quite new to shell scripting so would like to confirm my understanding of it.
In simple english, is the function checking there is a package.json file and then reading that file, I'm not sure what the glob pattern is doing though. The function is being passed a precommit string, so would it match the following? it does seem a bit odd if it matches the 2nd one as well
"precommit":
"precommit" abcde:
has_hook_script () {
[ -f package.json ] && cat package.json | grep -q "\"$1\"[[:space:]]*:"
}
Basically the function checks the JSON to see if there is a key with the same name as the first argument passed to the function.
Breaking it down step by step:
[ -f package.json ]
Does "package.json" exist and is it a file?
&&
if so, then:
cat package.json |
pipe its contents to the following command:
grep -q
grep's quiet mode, which will look for a match with the following regular expression:
\"$1\"[[:space:]]*:
\"$1\" - the first argument passed to the function inside double quotes (which is why the the double quotes are escaped)
followed by [[:space:]]* - zero or more spaces (in a regex context, * means 0 or more of the character preceding it).
followed by a : - valid JSON can have 0 or more spaces between the key name and the colon
Since grep is the last command executed in the function, the function will test successfully if a matching key is found.