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Old 08-20-2004
Question return valuse from child script to parent script
Hi,


I am trying to return a value from child script to a parent script just as a function does.

The child script will look for a file and if exists will return 1 else 0.

I need to capture the status 1 from child script in the parent script and proceed further. if 0, i need not do anything.

Any suggestions on how this can be achieved?

Thanks in adv
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Old 08-20-2004
The child script needs to do either
exit 0
exit 1
as required. The parent script will capture the exit code in $?.
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