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On Sunday 04 January 2009 14:35:52 Martin Herrman wrote: |
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> On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 3:31 PM, Maciej Kazulak <kazulakm@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> > The reason only the first command was executed can be that it returned a |
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> > non-zero exit status. If you want to make sure every command gets a |
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> > chance to execute, regardless of what the exit status of the previous one |
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> > is, substitute '&&' with ';'. Check this out: |
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> > box% false && echo "will not be echoed" |
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> > box% false; echo "hello" |
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> > hello |
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> > box% |
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<snip> |
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> hehe, didn't think about using a ; that would work as well :-) |
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> (but if you have A to Z, your command will be much longer than just |
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> the for-loop in script 1) |
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> BTW, you might want to output all to a file using >> "/home/Fred |
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> Music/output.log" and view it using a "tail -f /path/file". Run |
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> mp3gain quiet and grep the output.log file for errors/failures.. |
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The number of files I need to work on is huge so using ";" instead of "&&" |
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will enable me to spread the load overnight for a few weeks. |
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Thanks for all who responded. Don't you just love gentoo Linux. |
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Paul |
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