On Thu, 2006-03-30 at 08:17, Mike Noyes wrote: > On Thu, 2006-03-30 at 04:41, Charles Steinkuehler wrote: > > I mentioned the -l switch to lockfile since I > > wasn't sure if your removal of the lockfile when trying to grab it > > failed was unintentional, or an attempt at forcibly grabbing it. > > I was trying to clear the lockfile before exiting in case of failure, > just as your example clears the lockfile on success. I didn't do it > right though.
Charles, Would 'trap', as shown in the link below, achieve the results I was looking for originally? Writing Robust Bash Shell Scripts: Setting traps http://www.davidpashley.com/articles/writing-robust-shell-scripts.html BTW, I'm not using 'set -e' either. -- Mike Noyes <mhnoyes at users.sourceforge.net> http://sourceforge.net/users/mhnoyes/ SF.net Projects: leaf, phpwebsite, phpwebsite-comm, sitedocs ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ leaf-devel mailing list leaf-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel