-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi folks, apologies for the off topic post, but I'm hoping someone can answer my question. In a bash script, how do you deal with a program returning 0 in an if statement? Here's a script to illustrate what I mean #!/bin/sh if [ `/bin/true || echo $?` = 1 ] ; then echo "returned 1" fi When I run this, I should just get the bash prompt back. When I run it though, I get: [: 4: =: unexpected operator followed by the prompt. I understand this happens because true exits with 0 status, and it isn't echoed back, so the if statement compares nothing to 1. What I'd like to know is how to get around that? Thanks in advance. Greg - -- web site: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org gpg public key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc skype: gregn1 (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) - -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk90BP0ACgkQ7s9z/XlyUyCQGACgxxLgwZEYcu5pvsscH4wVpBTH JrQAnAyQjTipfY5mHCExzyq552b7n8Fc =FT/Z -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
