Initial version complete

I dusted this off after years and had Claude finish
it for me.

caveat emptor: this is largely (though not entirely)
LLM generated as of this commit

1 files changed, 20 insertions, 9 deletions

diff --git a/ves-create.sh b/ves-create.sh
index b4f6467..11e6f05 100644..100755
--- a/ves-create.sh
+++ b/ves-create.sh
@@ -1,32 +1,43 @@
 #!/bin/sh
+#
+# Create a new sh-ves environment. With --override, the variables listed
+# in SHVES_OVERRIDE_VARS (PATH, LDPATH, etc. by default) are initialized
+# to empty strings in the new environment, so activating it truncates them.
+#
 _shves_create_env() {
     file="$SHVES_ENV_DIR/$1"
-    printf "name: $1\n" > $file
+    printf "name: %s\n" "$1" > "$file"
 
-    if [ "$2" -eq "1" ]; then
+    if [ "$2" -eq 1 ]; then
         for var in $SHVES_OVERRIDE_VARS; do
-            printf "export_var:%s=\n" "$var" >> $file
+            printf "export_var:%s=\n" "$var" >> "$file"
         done
     fi
 }
 
 ves_create() {
+    override=0
+    case $1 in
+        --override)
+            override=1
+            shift
+            ;;
+    esac
+
     if [ "$#" -lt 1 ]; then
-        printf "ERROR: No environment name specified.\n" > /dev/stderr
+        printf "ERROR: No environment name specified.\n" >&2
         return 1
     fi
 
-    override=0
     env_name="$1"
-    test "$#" -eq "2" && override=1
 
     if ! _shves_check_env_name "$env_name"; then
-        return 1;
+        return 1
     fi
 
     if _shves_check_env_exists "$env_name" 1; then
-        printf "ERROR: Environment [%s] already exists.\n" "$env_name"
-        return 1;
+        printf "ERROR: Environment [%s] already exists.\n" "$env_name" >&2
+        return 1
     fi
 
     _shves_create_env "$env_name" "$override"