Skip to content

Instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

@stringfellow

stringfellow/silence_if_ok.sh

Created July 12, 2012 10:09
Show Gist options
  • Star 0 You must be signed in to star a gist
  • Fork 0 You must be signed in to fork a gist
  • Save stringfellow/3097173 to your computer and use it in GitHub Desktop.
Save stringfellow/3097173 to your computer and use it in GitHub Desktop.
Download ZIP
Bash wrapper script to silence cron if there are no errors, and print out if there are
Raw
silence_if_ok.sh
#!/bin/bash
logfile=$$.log
exec 6>&1
exec > $logfile 2>&1
$*
RETVAL=$?
exec 1>&6 6>&-
if [ $RETVAL -ne 0 ]; then
echo "FAILURES:"
cat $logfile
fi
rm $logfile
Sign up for free to join this conversation on GitHub. Already have an account? Sign in to comment