[Logcheck-devel] Re: [Logcheck-commits] CVS logcheck/src

[Todd Troxell]

On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 10:45:18AM +0200, maks attems wrote:
> On Wed, 19 May 2004, Todd Troxell wrote:
> > The problem is, we get the same exit status when grep either:
> > 	-cannot append to the file
> > 	-does not find any matches
> > 
> > (It's 1 both times)  The problem is that the error is not a grep error and
> > comes from the shell (>>), so grep doesn't know.
> 
> you are right, just tested:
> baikonur:~ egrep TODO secret/whativedone >> /tmp/blaa
> grep: write error: No space left on device
> baikonur:~ echo $?
> 1
> 
>  
> > I know of ways to do this, but they are not pretty :\
> 
> seems so :(


aha!

xtat at port:~$ egrep Outgrafbe mimsy.txt|cat >> /dev/null; echo $?

with pipe to cat == return 0, matches or not
return 1 on unable to output


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