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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Getting same exit status for empty and non empty file Post 302264138 by mavesum on Wednesday 3rd of December 2008 08:09:04 AM
Old 12-03-2008
thnx for the reply , now i m giving like this

#!/bin/ksh
if [[ -s "$DD_INDD" ]]; then
echo "data"
ERROR=$?
echo "$ERROR"
else
echo "****************************"
echo "**** ERROR - FILE EMPTY ****"
echo "****************************"
ERROR=$?
echo "$ERROR"
fi;
exit

agaiin the same issue
 

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MSGFMT_GET_ERROR_MESSAGE(3)						 1					       MSGFMT_GET_ERROR_MESSAGE(3)

MessageFormatter::getErrorMessage - Get the error text from the last operation

	Object oriented style

SYNOPSIS
public string MessageFormatter::getErrorMessage (void ) DESCRIPTION
Procedural style string msgfmt_get_error_message (MessageFormatter $fmt) Get the error text from the last operation. PARAMETERS
o $fmt - The message formatter RETURN VALUES
Description of the last error. EXAMPLES
Example #1 msgfmt_get_error_message(3) example <?php $fmt = msgfmt_create("en_US", "{0, number} monkeys on {1, number} trees"); $str = msgfmt_format($fmt, array()); if(!$str) { echo "ERROR: ".msgfmt_get_error_message($fmt) . " (" . msgfmt_get_error_code($fmt) . ") "; } ?> Example #2 OO example <?php $fmt = new MessageFormatter("en_US", "{0, number} monkeys on {1, number} trees"); $str = $fmt->format(array()); if(!$str) { echo "ERROR: ".$fmt->getErrorMessage() . " (" . $fmt->getErrorCode() . ") "; } ?> The above example will output: ERROR: msgfmt_format: not enough parameters: U_ILLEGAL_ARGUMENT_ERROR (1) SEE ALSO
msgfmt_get_error_code(3), intl_get_error_code(3), intl_is_failure(3). PHP Documentation Group MSGFMT_GET_ERROR_MESSAGE(3)
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