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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Conditional delete -- New glitch Post 303024216 by onenessboy on Wednesday 3rd of October 2018 08:56:26 AM

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Originally Posted by Don Cragun

I'm glad it is working for you, but my explanation in post #3 isn't entirely correct and I'm not sure that the "problem" would appear in all shells. When I originally wrote post #3, I was thinking of ommands in a compound list surrounded by parentheses; in that case the commands in the compound list are executed in a subshell environment and what you were doing would never have worked in that case.

But, commands in a compound list surrounded by braces are executed in the current process environment. But the order in which commands are executed in a pipeline isn't as clearly specified. If the cd in the compound list is executed before the sh at the end of the pipeline is invoked, the pipeline as written would work. If the cd in the compound list is executed after the sh at the end of the pipeline is invoked, the pipeline as written would fail with the diagnostic messages the submitter stated. Therefore, the code you showed us in post #1 has a race condition that may work sometimes and fail at other times. Your choice of shells might alter the likelihood of success or failure, but the race condition would always be there.

By putting the cd before the pipeline in an AND list, we are forcing it to be completed successfully before the pipeline is started; therefore, we know that all elements of the pipeline have to be executed in the desired working directory

Dear Don Cragun

Thanks for detailed explanation. Actually what happened was , if you remember your earlier solution on the thread (the code that i was using).. at that time, for testing I have placed those files in / root directory as there was no mount point seperately for backup on test VM.

Now coming into solution implementation, this script is executed from central server on different remote machines (where I will pass IP of that remote) via ansible script..it will go to remote place and then execute the code. What happened here is, when executed from central server it actually login (ssh) into remote server specified and should actually go to backup directiry(which is separate mount), instead that ssh going into default user directory not the backup mount point where our solution get executed. I believe that is the reason, where my testing machine i placed those files in default root directory and it was working, as default directory is same,where as in real implementation it has to go into /backup mount instead, i guess its going to user default directory on remote (ssh remotely going to default user directory and searching for files , obviously saying no files found).

And coming to the warning you mentioned, Yes, I still agree and not sure whether it will work on machines. (as of now my guess is above mentioned reason). We are using all Redhat 7.5 latest boxes(bash shell), where my test machine also redhat 7.5 one.

However as of now you && solution before braces works as expected, may be i need to verify on different boxes how it responds Smilie

Thank you very much again

onenessboy

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