From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 9 20:00:40 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A21EE56 for ; Wed, 9 Jan 2013 20:00:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: from asbnvacz-mailrelay01.megapath.net (asbnvacz-mailrelay01.megapath.net [207.145.128.243]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4299F9AB for ; Wed, 9 Jan 2013 20:00:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail7.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail7.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.52]) by asbnvacz-mailrelay01.megapath.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63428A72ACB for ; Wed, 9 Jan 2013 15:00:39 -0500 (EST) Received: (qmail 24498 invoked from network); 9 Jan 2013 20:00:38 -0000 Received: by simscan 1.4.0 ppid: 6512, pid: 15589, t: 0.1854s scanners: clamav: 0.88.2/m:52/d:13513 Received: from unknown (HELO be-well.ilk.org) ([66.92.78.145]) (envelope-sender ) by mail7.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 9 Jan 2013 20:00:38 -0000 Received: from lowell-desk.lan (lowell-desk.lan [172.30.250.8]) by be-well.ilk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3177E33C1D; Wed, 9 Jan 2013 15:00:33 -0500 (EST) Received: by lowell-desk.lan (Postfix, from userid 1147) id DB14E39855; Wed, 9 Jan 2013 15:00:32 -0500 (EST) From: Lowell Gilbert To: Fbsd8 Subject: Re: sh script problem with capturing return code References: <50EC9009.3030305@a1poweruser.com> <20130108224626.8c2d89cd.freebsd@edvax.de> <50EC99F2.3020404@a1poweruser.com> <44d2xevlhb.fsf@lowell-desk.lan> <50ED88CF.7060308@a1poweruser.com> Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2013 15:00:32 -0500 In-Reply-To: <50ED88CF.7060308@a1poweruser.com> (fbsd8@a1poweruser.com's message of "Wed, 09 Jan 2013 10:12:15 -0500") Message-ID: <448v82unxb.fsf@lowell-desk.lan> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.2 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Cc: FreeBSD questions X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2013 20:00:40 -0000 Fbsd8 writes: > So the question remains, why is mtree giving a return of zero when it > finds directories on the target that are not in the spec file? Okay, I had a hard time figuring out your examples, but I think I've got an independent repeatable test case for the problem. ================================================================ mkdir etc home mtree -c -d > ../out mtree -d < ../out echo $? mkdir home/temp mtree -d < ../out echo $? sed -i "" 's/^\(home[ ]*\)\(.*\)$/\1ignore/' ../out mtree -d < ../out echo $? ================================================================ The results are: ================================================================ 5045] (lowell-desk) temp> mkdir etc home [5046] (lowell-desk) temp> mtree -c -d > ../out [5047] (lowell-desk) temp> mtree -d < ../out [5048] (lowell-desk) temp> echo $? 0 [5049] (lowell-desk) temp> mkdir home/temp [5050] (lowell-desk) temp> mtree -d < ../out home/temp extra [5051] (lowell-desk) temp> echo $? 0 [5052] (lowell-desk) temp> sed -i "" 's/^\(home[ ]*\)\(.*\)$/\1ignore/' ../out [5053] (lowell-desk) temp> mtree -d < ../out [5054] (lowell-desk) temp> echo $? 0 ================================================================ and I think the problem you're having is that the second "echo $?" should be 2, although the others are correct at 0. Is that correct? One difference from your example is that you're using '-u'. I'm not sure why you're doing that, but it doesn't affect the bug. Yours, Lowell -- http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/