Hi,
On Sat, Sep 16 at 06:16, Terry Coles wrote:
...
> 2. I tried to put the command into an if structure to test to ensure that it
> worked, eg
>
> if [ "rdate -v 192.168.0.2" ]; then
> exit 0
> else
> exit 1
> fi
That's not the way to test the outcome of a command. The [ ] actually
delimit the "test" command that performs various tests on it's arguments
before exiting with the result. What you've coded there is a test of
whether the string "rdate -v 192.168.0.2" is non-zero length.
Skip the [] and run the command directly in the if structure.
if rdate -v 192.168.0.2 ; then
exit 0
else
exit 1
fi
The return code of the last command is available in the variable $? so
you could simplify this to.
rdate -v 192.168.0.2
exit $?
Or even simpler as this is the last command.
exec rdate -v 192.168.0.2
HTH
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