SLUG Mailing List Archives - Re: [SLUG] mkdir and $?

To: Penguinillas <slug@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [SLUG] mkdir and $?
From: getadog <getadog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri Jul 6 21:56:02 2001
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On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 09:20:52PM +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> This is annoying - if anyone knows why this is happening, please tell me.
> I'm only interested in the errno, not the error (which is not set with -p,
> as stated in the docs).
> 
> For some reason, testing if $? = 0 is always false, even if $? really ought
> to be true (ie. it's built all the directories and $ERROR = 0). Argh!

Are you meaning to test the string length of $? ?

Does this work for you?

if [ "$ERRNO" -ne 0 ]; then

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