Background processes result code in HP-UX

[Duncan Edmonstone]

Just to add to the confusion... a word of warning on using "wait " in scripts...

if the command you are intending to wait for *exits* before you call wait, you will *not* get the return code of the process... so for shortlived processes, I tend not to trust wait, and always put some sort of shell wrapper around any background process where I can collect status information (into a file for example)

HTH

Duncan

[Horia Chirculescu]

Thank you all for the replys.

I will close this thread as it it clear now.

Best regards,
Horia Chirculescu
Vianet Serv SRL.

[Horia Chirculescu]

Thread closed.

[Dennis Handly]

>JRF: I have always found the shell's use of '-eq', '-lt' and '-gt' ..., to be counterintuitive.

If you are only doing numeric comparisons, then you can switch to C style:
if (( rc1 != 0 || rc2 != 0 || rc3 != 0 || rc4 != 0 || rc5 != 0 )); then

Or if you think these are boolean values:
if (( rc1 || rc2 || rc3 || rc4 || rc5 )); then