I think the return status is only captured for the 'find' command and not for the 'cp' command. Is there a way to get the return status for the 'cp' command to see if the copy is successful or not?
Hi,
I want to find the exit status of the last executed command in C Shell.
Tried $? but getting the error Variable syntax...$? does not seem to work in C shell..
is there any other command in C shell to find the exit status of last command?
Thanks in advance,
raju (1 Reply)
I am executing a find command in my script i.e
find $2 -type f -name '*.gif' -mtime +$1 -exec rm {} \;
how do i check that this command is executed properly.. i would lke t trap the errror and display my error message
kinly help.. this is an urgent issue. (1 Reply)
Hi,
I am using /bin/sh. I want to display the stdout and stderr on the terminal as well as save it in a file, so I'm using this command.
gmake all 2>&1 | tee log
But even if gmake fails, it's always giving 0 as exit status, i suppose because of tee.
# false 2>&1 | tee Log
# echo $?
0... (2 Replies)
Hi all does find command return anything if the file to be searched is not found? Like if I search from a file in a dir does it return false or null if the file is not found? Please suggests. (3 Replies)
Hello
I have a program (prog) that accepts a parameter in order to execute some internal loop grabbing memory in each iteration. I'm using top to monitor the memory usage and to produce an output.
Thus I need the program's pid as a parameter to top.
I capture pid using myPID=$!.
I'm also... (5 Replies)
Hi,
Want to log the output of command & check the exit status to find whether it succeeded or failed.
> ls abc
ls: abc: No such file or directory
> echo $?
1
> ls abc 2>&1 | tee log
ls: abc: No such file or directory
> echo $?
0
Tee commands changes my exit status to be always... (7 Replies)
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Hello All,
I am trying to capture the exit status of find command and want to delete the files only when it is successful. But it is always returning me as success even if the pattern of that file doesn't exist in the current directory. please help, checked manual page but couldn't able to figure... (6 Replies)
when I run the following command in AIX (bash),
find ./*
I get the following error.
find: bad status-- ./*
Thats becasuse, its an empty directory. The same works, when there the directory is not empty. Even though the find deesnt have to rerun any result.
My full find command would look... (4 Replies)
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