How to use exit status of two commands in if statement ?
I am trying to write a shell script, which looks like
In the above code, i am trying to use the exit value of make command and the (not) grep command to success true or failure, but it is not working since Makefile is in different folder one level above the level i am currently on see pushd, i have done pushd twice neither do i want it to run once again.
what i wanted to do is to print success if the test (make command) passed and there are no matches of word '[ERROR]:' in the log generated by the test. how can i do that?
i tried something like
but it didn't work either
what should i have to do to achieve this ? I am using bash shell
Last edited by Sekhar419; 02-06-2019 at 11:56 AM..
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exStatus() {
return $1
}
-> my question is rather theoretical
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