On Wed, 12 Jul 2006, Stuart Jansen wrote:
On Wed, 2006-07-12 at 06:22 -0600, Jonathan Duncan wrote:
I just do not know the syntax. I saw a list of "Exit Values" in the rsync
man page but how do I check for those?
If you don't care about the exact return code in event of an error, you
can include the rsync command in the if statement.
if rsync foo bar baz
then
echo success
else
echo failure
fi
If you care about the return code, immediately after running rsync, add
RC=$?
The variable $? contains the return code of the last command to execute.
if [ 0 -eq $RC ]
then
echo "Shells are weird, 0 == success == true"
fi
Check the builtin bash help for test
help test
to find out about the various types of tests.
Thank you, Stuart and Byron. Very helpful!
Jonathan
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