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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Files validation Post 302708169 by the_gripmaster on Monday 1st of October 2012 07:10:59 AM
Old 10-01-2012
Quote:
Originally Posted by jim mcnamara
Find does not return an error when no files are found. Testing the rc ($?) will not help very much.

The log file size will be zero when nothing is found, test that instead:
Code:
find *.doc -mtime -1 -ls > test.log

if [ ! -s test.log ]; then
  echo "Server password expires" >> test.log
fi

I am running Bash 4.x and find (find (GNU findutils) 4.4.2) does return exit code of 1 when the file is not found.

---------- Post updated at 09:10 PM ---------- Previous update was at 09:09 PM ----------

Quote:
Originally Posted by sv0081493
Hi,

Thanks a lot for your prompt response.
I want to understand the concept here for below commands and its use.Could you please help
if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
$? contains the exit code of the previous run command. For a success, $? is 0 and for a fail $? is 1. However, there are some gotchas but that's the simple rule.
 

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GTESTER(1)							   User Commands							GTESTER(1)

NAME

       gtester - test running utility

SYNOPSIS

       gtester [OPTION...] [testprogram]

DESCRIPTION

       gtester is a utility to run unit tests that have been written using the GLib test framework.

       When called with the -o option, gtester writes an XML report of the test results, which can be converted into HTML using the gtester-report
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OPTIONS

       -h, --help
	   print help and exit

       -v, --version
	   print version information and exit

       --g-fatal-warnings
	   make warnings fatal

       -k, --keep-going
	   continue running after tests failed

       -l
	   list paths of available test cases

       -m=MODE
	   run test cases in MODE, which can be one of:

	   perf
	       run performance tests

	   slow, thorough
	       run slow tests, or repeat non-deterministic tests more often

	   quick
	       do not run slow or performance tests, or do extra repeats of non-deterministic tests (default)

	   undefined
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	   no-undefined
	       do not run test cases that deliberately provoke checks or assertion failures

       -p=TESTPATH
	   only run test cases matching TESTPATH

       -s=TESTPATH
	   skip test cases matching TESTPATH

       --seed=SEEDSTRING
	   run all test cases with random number seed SEEDSTRING

       -o=LOGFILE
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       --verbose
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