Hello everyone, I have a small programming question here, which I'm not sure if it's possible to do or not, but any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. What I need is for the following to return with the appropriate exit status value ( $? ).
---- Start Code ---- tar -cvzf $dev $dir 2>>$backup_error_report | while read line do ...(conditions here)... done retval="$?" ---- End Code ---- Because I'm piping the 'tar' output to 'read', no exit status value is returned. Is there any way I could still get tar's return value doing it this way?.... If that makes any sense to anyone. Thanks. ________________________________________________________________ Kevin Green KD Micro Software MP 107, Market City 280 Bannister Road CANNING VALE WA 6155 Phone: 08 9256 1566 Ext: 2778 Mobile: 0439 696 585 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Internet: http://www.kdmicro.com.au -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
