RE: offtopic - unix command

I do it all the time with a line like this :

  rsh $1 ". ${vTARGETPROFILE};mkdir $2;echo \$?"

In this case, I am making a directory called $2 at host $1. The unix command sets the error value so when you can now get that value over on the calling machine.

You could also do it like this:

rsh ${vTARGETHOST} ". ${vTARGETPROFILE};echo \${ORACLE_BASE" | read vTARGETORABASE

In this case, I am getting the value of ORACLE_BASE at the remote host vTARGETHOST and reading it into the variable vTARGETORABASE.

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Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 12:16 PM
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But what if command blah does not output anything? In this case, $a is null, as it is when the command fails.

Steven Lembark wrote:

> Is there a way to check for the success/failure of the actual remote
> command when using rsh?

    $a=$(rsh blah);

and parse $a for output for an indication of the blah command succeeding or failing.

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