Re: [MLUG] basic Unix pipe/exit code problem

[ryan woodsmall <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

After thinking long and hard about this and trying a number of things 
in Bash, I simply can't find a good, easy way of doing it without using 
temp files and conditional statements.  Or just forget using shell 
scripts and use Perl.  Despite all of the (), |, ||, && trickery I 
could think of, none of them worked like I expected them to.

   ryan woodsmall
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On Mar 3, 2005, at 5:32 PM, Mark Rages wrote:
>
> Note, this doesn't solve my problem.  In this example, I would want to
> know if "cmd1" failed with an error.
>
> Regards,
> Mark
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