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Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 10:46:00 -0500
From: C Peter Biessener <pbiessener@hirshfields.com>
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I have a program which may be run interactively or via cron.  I want to 
use one shell wrapper for both instances.

<--- fragment --->
if [ $interactive -eq $TRUE ]; then
#  myprog $interactive_args 2>&1 | tee -a $err_file
   myprog $interactive_args
else
   myprog $cron_args >>$err_file 2>&1
fi

if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
   # do error processing
   . . .
fi
<--- fragment --->

I want my interactive users to see any errors (so they know if it 
failed), but ideally I would also like to capture the errors to an error 
file as well.  However, if I use 'tee', then $? gets tee's exit value 
and not the exit value from myprog.

Is there any way to be able to do what I want?


Thanks,

Peter Biessener


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