hey peeps
ive made my first script, its for my work made in HP-UX, kshell
anyways
the script copies 3 files from a spider system to the floppydrive of my collegeau, I want to check if there is a floppy in the drive otherwise the script just runs forever and I don't have that time a day ;),... anybody got a idea ?
thnx in advance
EJ
Depends on how you copy the files.
If you mount the floppy first, before the copy, you get a error message on the mount command.
if you just copy a file to a device like cp <file> /dev/fd0/<file> you get a error message on the cp command.
You can test the exit-code of the last executed command, like
if [[ ! $? = 0 ]]
then
echo "error occured"
else
echo " no error"
fi
where $? stands for the exit code.
See also:
http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~jlk/kornshell/doc/man93.html