How to logically negate the return value of a command?
Nathan Dorfman
na at rtfm.net
Tue Sep 23 15:34:41 UTC 2014
On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 2:04 PM, Chris Green <cl at isbd.net> wrote:
> However this doesn't work of course. Is there any easy way (i.e. an
> executable command) which will logically not the value that ping
> returns? I know I could write a little script that does the job but
> if can do it without I'd be happier.
There's probably a nicer way to do it, but this should work:
ping -c1 hostname; test "$?" -ne 0
-nd.
> --
> Chris Green
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