In some cases, when qemu is just starting up the logfile hasn't yet been created and will throw an error message into the output:
ls: cannot access .tmp-3070/logfile-3070.log: No such file or directory if we check to see if the file is readable first then we know the file is present and we can extract the size. Signed-off-by: Ryan Harper <ry...@us.ibm.com> --- qemu-test | 7 ++++--- 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/qemu-test b/qemu-test index c6ea595..cd102a7 100755 --- a/qemu-test +++ b/qemu-test @@ -54,9 +54,10 @@ checkpid() { } get_file_size() { - ls -al $1 | cut -f5 -d' ' 2>/dev/null - if test $? != 0; then - echo 0 + if test -r "${1}" ; then + ls -al $1 | cut -f5 -d' ' + else + echo 0 fi } -- 1.7.6