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Old 09-27-2011
Unable to find exit status of piped command
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Lois_Answer_Code=`sipsak -vv -s sip:192.168.1.3|grep -A 1 "reply received after"|grep SIP|awk '{print $2}'`
How to find the exit status of
Quote:
sipsak -vv -s sip:192.168.1.3
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# 2  
Old 09-27-2011
The exit status of any command can be extracted using "$?"

For eg:-
Code:
sipsak -vv -s sip:192.168.1.3
echo $?

--ahamed
# 3  
Old 09-27-2011
First i will run the below:
Quote:
Lois_Answer_Code=`sipsak -vv -s sip:204.145.219.12|grep -A 1 "reply received after"|grep SIP|awk '{print $2}'`
Then i need to find the exit status of the below portion of the above command:
Quote:
sipsak -vv -s sip:204.145.219.12
# 4  
Old 09-27-2011
Code:
sipsak -vv -s sip:192.168.1.3 && es=$? || es=$? | awk '/reply received after/ {getline; $0~/SIP/ {print $2}}'
echo $es

# 5  
Old 09-27-2011
Not working. I need to save the output of the command in the variable Lois_Answer_Code as well
# 6  
Old 09-27-2011
what not working ?

post the error or what you are getting ?
# 7  
Old 09-27-2011
Quote:
[root@wiki ~]# sipsak -vv -s sip:192.168.1.3 && es=$? || es=$? | awk '/reply received after/ {getline; $0~/SIP/ {print $2}}'
** timeout after 500 ms**
** timeout after 1000 ms**
** timeout after 2000 ms**
** timeout after 4000 ms**
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