Roger Hardiman wrote: > Build calls Stage1. Stage1 will return with an error code in some cases > and we want to trap this and halt the Build script. > > ./stage1 2>&1 | tee stage1.out > if [ "X$?" != "X0" ] ; then > > Normally, $? will return the Exit Status of the last executed program. > However, due to the pipe through Tee, the Exit Status I get is the > exit status of Tee and not the exit status of the Stage1 script. > > I still want to output the stage1 script to screen and a log file. > How can I do this and preserve the exit status for the Build script.
There's a bit about this in the "Csh Programming Considered Harmful" document, showing how "easy" it is in the Bourne shel: Consider the pipeline: A | B | C You want to know the status of C, well, that's easy: it's in $?, or $status in csh. But if you want it from A, you're out of luck -- if you're in the csh, that is. In the Bourne shell, you can get it, although doing so is a bit tricky. Here's something I had to do where I ran dd's stderr into a grep -v pipe to get rid of the records in/out noise, but had to return the dd's exit status, not the grep's: device=/dev/rmt8 dd_noise='^[0-9]+\+[0-9]+ records (in|out)$' exec 3>&1 status=`((dd if=$device ibs=64k 2>&1 1>&3 3>&- 4>&-; echo $? >&4) | egrep -v "$dd_noise" 1>&2 3>&- 4>&-) 4>&1` exit $status; See http://www-uxsup.csx.cam.ac.uk/csh.html for the rest. so exec 3>&1 exit_code=`((./stage1 2>&1 1>&3 3>&- 4>&-; echo $? >&4) | tee stage1.out 1>&2 3>&- 4>&-) 4>&1` exec 3>&- or something, should get it for you. I used `exit_code' rather than `status' because `$status' is read-only in zsh, but that shouldn't be a problem for plain old sh. You'd better add some comments explaining just what it does :-) -- Ben Smithurst | PGP: 0x99392F7D b...@scientia.demon.co.uk | key available from keyservers and | ben+...@scientia.demon.co.uk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
