On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 07:13:11PM -0700, gypsy wrote: > Your script can be modified to display the line with the substitutions > and to exit when executing causes an error. What I envision is that > you'll watch 2000+ lines of good stuff scroll by and that the final line > will be your Bad Boy. And the last few lines are what we all are > holding our breath to see <grin>.
This took me a little while to figure out myself, so I thought I'd post it. If you are running a bash script, what you want to do is to add at the top: set -e # causes script exit on error set -x # causes command to be printed before it is executed Glen -- ****************************************************************** Glen W. Mabey [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mabeys.homelinux.com/glen/ ****************************************************************** _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/
