Re: Checking XCOPY Exit Value in Cygwin Bash

[Shane <wolfpack at inbox dot com>]

Igor Peshansky wrote:
> As David said, cvs has an easy way of doing this (using "cvs diff" and
> "patch"), which will also deal with local and checked in changes to the
> same file (while your method won't).
>
>   
Point taken. I will certainly look into it.
> Did you happen to notice the mention of the "--keep-newer-files" tar
> option in my original reply to you?  Just add that to the last "tar", and
> you will only copy the files that were changed in your copy (presumably by
> you) after the checked in version.
>
>   
Yeah I saw that reply and I had tried it. There were two problems.
   1. New files will not be added to the build directory. It will say 
something like
         tar: ./Test/res/Test.manifest: Warning: Cannot stat: No such 
file or directory
         tar: Current `./Test/res/Test.manifest' is newer
      and the required manifest file is not copied into the build 
folder. So for the initial copy I have to
      use it without the --keep-newer-files, and for the subsequent 
copies I will have to use the --keep-newer-files.

   2. This is the real problem. That is getting an indication whether 
none of the files were updated or not. I want to             proceed 
with the rest of the building script only if more than one files have 
been copied. I do not know how to             get that using the tar 
command. I tried echoing the $? value but it gives 0 all the time. The 
source compiler can
        detect if the sources were updated or not, on it's own, but 
there are a lot of projects in one Visual Studio
        Solution (about 60), that I can't wait until all those projects 
have been parsed.
       I am using                  
                               while read amount ; do

        		if [ ${amount::1} != "0" ]; then
            			copied=true;
        		fi
    		done < copy.log
	for that purpose.

> MSDN apparently lies.  XCOPY for me returns non-zero on error, and 0 on
> normal execution (no matter how many files were copied).
>   
If that is the case, then there is no point in trying to check for the 
xcopy return value.
As a short term solution I will stick with my original XCOPY solution. 
But I will try to find out
what CVS, Make and the other tools have to offer. If there is a way of 
getting if files have been replaced using the
tar command, I will try to implement that into my solution.
Although I am fairly competent at programming in C/C++, this is my first 
attempt in writing a serious bash script,
and I must admit that I am both impressed and overwhelmed by it's power. :)

Thank you all for the help offered so far.
Regards
Shane

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