Status of sub-command

"Jon Earle" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.user-groups.linux.ottawa.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hey folks,

If I have a script command such as:

${CVS} ${CVSGlbOpts} update ${CVSUpdOpts} 2>&1 | ${GREP} -v ^? >
${CVSResultsFile} || status=0

The obvious problem is that the 'status=0' is set by the status of the grep
command and not the cvs command.  Originally, the commandline was coded
without the grep - I'm adding it to try and cleanup the log.

How can I capture the status of the cvs command (ignoring the grep) and still
process the output of the cvs command to reduce the logfile cruft?

Cheers!
Jon

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