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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting cant get the right exit message Post 62699 by tmarikle on Friday 18th of February 2005 04:05:34 PM
Old 02-18-2005
You are missing spaces after the "[" and preceeding the "]". This is the required syntax.

Please look carefully at the previous response.
Code:
if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then echo "Ran Fine"
else echo "Didnt run"
fi

Quote:
Why do we need to put hyphen infront of operator?
You'll have to ask the folks who designed the shell on this question. It's just simply required.

Thomas
 

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print(1)							   User Commands							  print(1)

NAME
print - shell built-in function to output characters to the screen or window SYNOPSIS
ksh print [ -Rnprsu [n]] [arg...] DESCRIPTION
ksh The shell output mechanism. With no flags or with flag - or -, the arguments are printed on standard output as described by echo(1). OPTIONS
The following options are supported: -n suppresses new-line from being added to the output. -R -r (raw mode) ignore the escape conventions of echo. The -R option will print all subsequent arguments and options other than -n. -p causes the arguments to be written onto the pipe of the process spawned with |& instead of standard output. -s causes the arguments to be written onto the history file instead of standard output. -u [ n ] flag can be used to specify a one digit file descriptor unit number n on which the output will be placed. The default is 1. EXIT STATUS
The following exit values are returned: 0 Successful operation. >0 Output file is not open for writing. ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWcsu | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
echo(1), ksh(1), attributes(5) SunOS 5.10 15 Apr 1994 print(1)
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