Re: how to test for return code?

From: Bill Marcum (bmarcum_at_iglou.com)
Date: 10/04/03 

Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2003 18:00:57 -0400

On Fri, 03 Oct 2003 20:55:21 GMT, Jane
  <Jane@dossss.com> wrote:
> My script has
> ...
> echo "get *.zip" | sftp userid@passwd >> ftplog
> ...
>
> How do I test if the sftp succeeded?
>
> I tried
> ...
> IS_ERR = `echo "get *.zip" | sftp userid@passwd >> ftplog`
> echo $IS_ERR
> ....
>
Don't you mean userid@hostname ?
Also, in any Bourne-like shell, when you assign a variable, you
shouldn't have spaces before or after the = sign.
How about:
scp userid@hostname:*.zip .
echo $?
or:
rsync -au user@hostname:*.zip .
echo $? 

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