On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Brian Stark wrote:

>   if [ `rsh porter "date | wc -l"` != 0 ]; then
>     echo "oh no!"
>   else
>     echo "command was successful"
>   fi

oops... I noticed the example's logic for checking the return value is
reversed... oh well, you get the idea... This woul be more correct:

   if [ `rsh porter "date | wc -l"` != 0 ]; then
     echo "command was successful"
   else
     echo "oh no!"
   fi


Brian

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