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Catching $?

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Matsul

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IS-IT--Management
May 6, 2002
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I am running

find /home -print | backup -i -f /dev/rmt0 | tee -a logfile

and I always get $? as 0 even if the backup command fails.

Of course it must be because of the tee command but is there a way to leave the tee command and catch the error level of the backup command .

thanks
 
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Try this instead:
find /home -print | backup -i -f /dev/rmt0 1>/tmp/backup.log 2>/tmp/backup.err
 
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