Chet,
Thanks for the detailed feedback. I double check the documentation (man,
changelog) issues, those seems to be local problems with our system (for some
strange reason, the man pages were mirrored from RH4 image).
One last comment about the "double subshell" case:
> ( echo "$!") &
> ( echo
Good Morning,
I've encountered another interesting change in behavior between Bash3 and
Bash4. I hope that you can help me:
The core question is how to retrieve the status of a command, when running with
'-e'
For production critical jobs, we run the script in '-e', to ensure that all
steps ar
On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 11:44:49AM +, Lenga, Yair wrote:
> The core question is how to retrieve the status of a command, when running
> with '-e'
http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ/105
Am 12.04.2013 13:44, schrieb Lenga, Yair:
> Good Morning,
>
> I've encountered another interesting change in behavior between Bash3 and
> Bash4. I hope that you can help me:
>
> The core question is how to retrieve the status of a command, when running
> with '-e'
>
> For production critical jobs
On 4/12/13 7:44 AM, Lenga, Yair wrote:
> The man page says that '-e' will "exit immediately if a simple command (note
> Simple Command::) exits with non-zero status unless ...".
> The "simple commands" definition is a "sequence of words separate by blanks
> ...". According to this definition, th
Chet,
Sorry again for pulling the wrong Bash 4 doc.
Based on the input, I'm assuming that the portable way (bash 3, bash 4 and
POSIX) to retrieve $? When running under "-e" is to use the PIPE
CMD_STAT=0 ; GET_MAIN_DATA || CMD_STAT=$?
If [ "$CMD_STAT" = 11 ] ; then
GET_BACKUP_DATA
Fi
A
Am 12.04.2013 18:26, schrieb Lenga, Yair:
> Chet,
>
> Sorry again for pulling the wrong Bash 4 doc.
>
> Based on the input, I'm assuming that the portable way (bash 3, bash 4 and
> POSIX) to retrieve $? When running under "-e" is to use the PIPEr
> CMD_STAT=0 ; GET_MAIN_DATA || CMD_STAT=$?
That i
Hi!
I've got strange behavior. Here's my script:
#!/bin/bash
{
trap '
echo "in trap EXIT">&2
' EXIT
sleep 4 &
echo 'sleep 2'>&2
sleep 2
echo 'wait $!'>&2
wait $!
echo 'exit'>&2
exit
} | cat
If I press
