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# 1  
Old 06-02-2011
Equivalents of tee command to find exit status of command
Hi,

Want to log the output of command & check the exit status to find whether it succeeded or failed.

> ls abc
ls: abc: No such file or directory
> echo $?
1

> ls abc 2>&1 | tee log
ls: abc: No such file or directory
> echo $?
0

Tee commands changes my exit status to be always successful as tee was successful. Smilie

Kindly let me know the options via which I can obtain the exit status of command while having the output stream flowing on the terminal.

Thanks in advance.
# 2  
Old 06-02-2011
try this... not tested...
Code:
ls abc 2>&1 | tee log &&  echo  $? || echo $?

# 3  
Old 06-02-2011
Getting success, return code of 0

ls abc 2>&1 | tee log && echo $? || echo $?
ls: abc: No such file or directory
0
# 4  
Old 06-02-2011
Code:
ls abc 2>&1 > log 
echo  $?

# 5  
Old 06-02-2011
That won't give me the output on terminal.
I can later cat or tail it, but it won't be simultaneous.

I want to monitor the progress on my terminal & log the output for later reference.
# 6  
Old 06-02-2011
This is a bit of a kludge, using a temporary file to hold the exit status, but it works:

Code:
(ls abc 2>&1; echo $? > tmpfile.$$) | tee log; cat tmpfile.$$; rm -f tmpfile.$$

# 7  
Old 06-02-2011
Another option:

Code:
$ ls abc 2>&1 | tee log
ls: abc: No such file or directory
$ echo $?
0

$ set -o pipefail
$ ls abc 2>&1 | tee log
ls: abc: No such file or directory
$ echo $?
1

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