Re: how to parse oncheck output?

On Wed, 1 Apr 1998 23:23:43 +0100, David Williams <djw@smooth1.demon.co.uk> wrote: >In article <35226b6a.35944921@gate.idg.no>, Nils Myklebust ><Nils.Myklebust@nmdata.com> writes >>This is one of the better questions asked at c.d.i. lately. >>I wish someone would take it up and at least say what they do with the >>output from the oncheck commands. I am getting rather bored from >>looking at them and have a hard time makeing others do it. >>Particularly at customer sites it seems quite stupid to have to tell >>them to look at all this garbage coming out of the commands to no >>avail. >> > Check out the -q (quiet) option! It is in 7.x!! Your great. It's actually an RTFM that I had overlooked. It solves all problems. Now we can simply redirect the output and if there is anything at all in the resulting file we can mail that. If the file is empty no error was found. Nils Myklebust NM Data AS Norway E-mail: Nils.Myklebust@nmdata.com FAQ at: Primary with ODBC info: http://www.smooth1.demon.co.uk Official site http://www.iiug.org/techinfo/faq/faq_top.html