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From: krowitz@RICHTER.MIT.EDU (David Krowitz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: /com/sh programming
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Date: 7 Sep 89 19:44:38 GMT
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I want to write an Aegis shell script that checks if a
previously executed command completed correctly. If I
remember correctly, programs which run to completetion
return the status code PGM_$OK. Does anyone know how
I can test for this within a shell script?


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