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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Question about tee command Post 302965752 by calredd on Tuesday 2nd of February 2016 03:04:37 PM
Old 02-02-2016
Sorry, I wasn't clear. My issue is more to do with using the "tee" command which is causing the error checking (in the next if statement) to always pass regardless of the actual command whether it runs successfully or fails.
 

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TEE(1)								   User Commands							    TEE(1)

NAME
tee - read from standard input and write to standard output and files SYNOPSIS
tee [OPTION]... [FILE]... DESCRIPTION
Copy standard input to each FILE, and also to standard output. -a, --append append to the given FILEs, do not overwrite -i, --ignore-interrupts ignore interrupt signals --help display this help and exit --version output version information and exit If a FILE is -, copy again to standard output. AUTHOR
Written by Mike Parker, Richard M. Stallman, and David MacKenzie. REPORTING BUGS
Report tee bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.org GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/> General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/> Report tee translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/> COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>. This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. SEE ALSO
The full documentation for tee is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and tee programs are properly installed at your site, the command info coreutils 'tee invocation' should give you access to the complete manual. GNU coreutils 8.5 February 2011 TEE(1)
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