On 05/30/2011 10:00 AM, Dotan Cohen wrote: > On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 17:55, Bob Beers<bob.beers at gmail.com> wrote: >> You can check the return code. >> >> $ ls >> $ echo $? >> >> 0 (usually) indicates success. >> > > Thank you Bob, that is exactly what I was looking for! And when you have several commands in a pipeline, the PIPESTATUS array is your friend: $ true | false | false | true | true $ echo ${PIPESTATUS[*]} 0 1 1 0 0 -- Bob Nichols "NOSPAM" is really part of my email address. Do NOT delete it.