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Displaying Return Codes

This is a high-level explanation, if more details are needed, please do not hesitate to ask.

I have a set of .ctl files which I want to execute:

AV1.ctl
AV2.ctl
AV3.ctl

I have a script which has a for loop in it:

for filename in AV1 AV2 AV3
do
. execute_another_script.sh
done

The "execute_another_script.sh" has a bunch of commands and they all exit with a return code. I then want to modify my script so that once it executes the "execute_another_script.sh" script I can get the return code from that script.

I have tried the following:

for filename in AH1 AH2 AH3
do
. execute_another_script.sh
echo $?
done

But that doesn't work, the "execute_another_script.sh" gets executed, but I do not get the return_code printed in the log file.

If I get rid of the '.' I get the return code but the variable $filename is not being read by the '.execute_another_script.sh' script.

I am not sure if I am calling the script correctly, do I need the '.'?

Any helpful tips would be greatly appreciated.

hern14

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edac-ctl

EDAC-CTL(8)							EDAC admin utility						       EDAC-CTL(8)

NAME

       edac-ctl - EDAC admin utility

SYNOPSIS

       edac-ctl [OPTION]...

DESCRIPTION

       The edac-ctl program is a perl(1) script which performs some useful administration tasks for EDAC (Error Detection and Correction) drivers.

OPTIONS

       --help Display a brief usage message.

       --mainboard
	      Print  mainboard vendor and model for this hardware, if available.  This option requires that the dmidecode(8) utility be installed,
	      and must be run as root.

       --status
	      Print the status of EDAC drivers (loaded or unloaded).

       --register-labels
	      Register motherboard DIMM labels into EDAC driver sysfs files.  This option uses the detected mainboard manufacturer and model  num-
	      ber  in  combination  with  a  "labels  database"  found	in any of the files under /etc/edac/labels.d/* or in the labels.db file at
	      /etc/edac/labels.db. An entry for the current hardware must exist in the labels database for this option to do anything.

       --print-labels
	      Display the configured labels for the current hardware, as well as the current labels registered with EDAC.

       --labeldb=DB
	      Specify an alternate location for the labels database.

SEE ALSO

       edac(3), edac-util(1)

edac-utils-0.16-1						    2009-01-30							       EDAC-CTL(8)

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