On Saturday 25 August 2001 06:00, bascule wrote: > does anyone know if there is a return value when running rsync that i can > use in a script that i want to write that will update my local copy of > cooker and then run urpmi.addmedia --update but only if rsync changes > anything > > make sense? > i've just started reading up on shell scripts, i don't know how to find out > this info about progs > > bascule just in general bash programs return a 0 on success and some other number on failure However this would not tell you if anything was added or not. You might have to parse the tail of a log file for that information. Civileme
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