From: Fiengo, Paul (Contractor) (FiengoP@ritchie.disa.mil)
Date: Thu Jan 16 2003 - 16:21:17 EST
Gurus,
As always, thank you for your timely and accurate responses. Special thanks
to
Mike Kail
Dan Astoorian and
Matthew Stier
All correctly identified that my "test" is testing the string returned by
mkdir and not the status of the command. My script is now functioning
properly and I am greatly appreciative of your time.
My initial post is listed below.
TKS !!!
Paul Fiengo
Dear Gurus,
I am having an issue with a portion of a script that I am writing. I am
testing on a SunBlade 1000 using Solaris 8 (02/02). The portion of the
script is as follows:
function createHF
{
exec 4< $ASHOME/export_counter
read -u4 archiveid
if test "`mkdir -p $EXPPERMDIR/export_$archiveid`"
then
chmod 770 $EXPPERMDIR/export_$archiveid
chown root:luminex $EXPPERMDIR/export_$archiveid
return
else echo `date` "archive_export... Unable to create
Export Permanent Directory. Please check system." >> $ASERRLOG
exit
fi
}
The scripts executes the above function and is able to create the directory
inside the "if" statement. However, instead of continuing through the
"then" statement, the script skips to the "else" statement entering the
message into a text file. I am unsure of why this is happening. Does
anyone have any ideas? I will summarize.
TIA,
Paul Fiengo
Paul Fiengo
DISA FSO / CACI
COM: 717.267.9361
DSN: 570.9361
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