quran

commit a0e2567f3139475abec20ecb80648a0a70b15c3c
parent 760c69e4fb8c6675b678bbb7e6f1fd51287f6128
Author: Riaz <riaz@riazj.com>
Date:   Wed, 23 Jul 2025 15:27:28 -0700

Remove unneeded error messages

get_surah_number already searches for a surah. Don't show error
messages due to SIGPIPE from the while loops.

Diffstat:
M
README
 | 
9
+--------
M
quran
 | 
6
+++---

2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
diff --git a/README b/README
@@ -54,14 +54,7 @@ or a script like this:
 
 	/usr/local/bin/quran "$@" | fold -s | "${PAGER:-less}"
 
-Use less with -R so that if grep returns an output with color, it can be
-viewed. The examples above can result in the script returning an error when the
-pager is closed (exit code 141) before the entire range of surahs or ayat have
-been found. To avoid this, the output can be redirected to a file that the
-pager opens. However, the pager will take more time to open since the file must
-be written first.
-
-	/usr/local/bin/quran "$@" | fold -s > tmpfile; "${PAGER:-less}" tmpfile
+Use less with -R so that if grep returns an output with color, it can be viewed.
 
 
 Adding Other Translations
diff --git a/quran b/quran
@@ -46,14 +46,14 @@ read_ayat() {
 
   [ "$start_ayah" -le "$end_ayah" ] || error "$start_ayah-$end_ayah: invalid range of ayat"
   while [ "$start_ayah" -le "$end_ayah" ]; do
-    grep "\[$surah:$start_ayah\]" "$QURAN" || error "$surah:$start_ayah: ayah not found"
+    grep "\[$surah:$start_ayah\]" "$QURAN"
     start_ayah=$((start_ayah+1))
   done
   exit
 }
 
 read_surah() {
-  grep -B3 "\[$1:" "$QURAN" || error "$1: surah not found"
+  grep -B3 "\[$1:" "$QURAN"
   exit
 }
 
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ read_surahs() {
 
   [ "$start_surah" -le "$end_surah" ] || error "$start_surah-$end_surah: invalid range of surahs"
   while [ "$start_surah" -le "$end_surah" ]; do
-    grep -B3 -A1 "\[$start_surah:" "$QURAN" || error "$start_surah: surah not found"
+    grep -B3 -A1 "\[$start_surah:" "$QURAN"
     start_surah=$((start_surah+1))
   done
   exit