which distro, and which eratta applied ?
-G
On 06-Jul-01 Jeff Waugh wrote:
> This is annoying - if anyone knows why this is happening, please tell me.
> I'm only interested in the errno, not the error (which is not set with -p,
> as stated in the docs).
>
> For some reason, testing if $? = 0 is always false, even if $? really ought
> to be true (ie. it's built all the directories and $ERROR = 0). Argh!
>
> poo:
>
>#!/bin/bash
> echo "the errno is currently $?"
> echo "making pants"
> ERROR=$(mkdir -p pants/pants/pants/pants/pants/on 2>&1)
> ERRNO=$?
> if [ ! -z $? ]; then
> echo "mkdir did not exit with 0"
> echo "error: $ERROR"
> echo "errno: $ERRNO"
> fi
>
> poo's output:
>
> the errno is currently 0
> making pants
> mkdir did not exit with 0
> error:
> errno: 0
>
> find pants:
>
> pants
> pants/pants
> pants/pants/pants
> pants/pants/pants/pants
> pants/pants/pants/pants/pants
> pants/pants/pants/pants/pants/on
>
> - Jeff
>
> --
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>
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