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# 1  
Old 08-25-2015
Trapping the return status from FIND command
I have the following code in a script:

Code:
find . \( ! -name . -prune \) -name "cg*" -exec cp -p {}   "${temp_dir}"   \; 

ret_stat=$?

I think the return status is only captured for the 'find' command and not for the 'cp' command. Is there a way to get the return status for the 'cp' command to see if the copy is successful or not?
# 2  
Old 08-25-2015
That's ambiguous, which cp do you want? It could be running it dozens of separate times.
# 3  
Old 08-25-2015
Perhaps using find just to locate names would let you track it yourself:

Code:
find . \( ! -name . -prune \) -name "cg*" > /tmp/$$
ERROR=0

while IFS="" read -r FILENAME
do
        cp -p "$FILENAME" "${temp_dir}" || ((ERROR++))
done < /tmp/$$
rm -f /tmp/$$

echo "$ERROR files failed to copy."

# 4  
Old 08-25-2015
The way I am looking at it is even if any one of the copy failed, I want to get notified byt an alert. Is that possible??
# 5  
Old 08-25-2015
How about the code I showed you, plus checking the value of ERROR to see whether an alert should be sent?
# 6  
Old 08-25-2015
Your find prunes sub-directories and does not filter for anything - why not
Code:
cp -p cg* "${temp_dir}"

?
# 7  
Old 08-26-2015
Thank you. it works. But, I am trying to test it by hard coding a file in /tmp/filelist (replaced $$ with filelist) that doesn't exist. When I run the script at that time it gives an error like this:

Code:
 ERROR++: more tokens expected

Idea is to trap the failures while copying and then send an alert. Any clue why that is happening.
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