From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Jan 6 18:12:22 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from lurza.secnetix.de (lurza.secnetix.de [212.66.1.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 760C837B419 for ; Sun, 6 Jan 2002 18:12:16 -0800 (PST) Received: (from olli@localhost) by lurza.secnetix.de (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g072COu27036; Mon, 7 Jan 2002 03:12:24 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from oliver.fromme@secnetix.de) Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 03:12:24 +0100 (CET) Message-Id: <200201070212.g072COu27036@lurza.secnetix.de> From: Oliver Fromme To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how to tell if 'make buildworld' finished? In-Reply-To: <20020106231346.GB93756@moo.holy.cow> X-Newsgroups: list.freebsd-stable User-Agent: tin/1.5.4-20000523 ("1959") (UNIX) (FreeBSD/4.4-RELEASE (i386)) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG parv wrote: > thanks oliver. somebody, off the list, contacted me w/ similar > clue. he preferred to use this syntax... > > # date && command && date Note that "&&" executes the command to the right of it only of the left one was successful. date should never never fail, and I think it's useful to get the second timestamp even if the buildworld fails, so I would prefer using ";" over "&&" in this case. Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co KG, Oettingenstr. 2, 80538 München Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix in any way. "All that we see or seem is just a dream within a dream" (E. A. Poe) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message