Re: Checking XCOPY Exit Value in Cygwin Bash

["Mark Fisher" <mark dot j dot fisher at gmail dot com>]

On 8/6/06, Shane wrote:
> Can you please provide me a way of checking the XCOPY exit code: reference [http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/xcopy.mspx?mfr=true] within Bash?

result codes are stored in $? in bash
success = 0 usually, and xcopy seems to follow the norm here.

here, i did
xcopy somefile somedir
echo $?

which returned 0

when i tried
xcopy nonfile somedir
echo $?

i get 4

so test for 0 for success.

extensions of this idea:
xcopy somefile somedir && echo ok
xcopy somefile somedir || echo fail

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