On 5/1/23 22:21, Tim wrote:
> After reading the responses in this thread I've adjusted it to capture the exit status
Just so I'm not a complete troll, heres your example which also appends a success/fail message :)
nohup $(pg_dump ${connection_details} > something.log 2>&1 && echo "pgdump succeded" >> something.log || echo "pgdump failed" something.log) &
Out of curiosity, why this:
> something.log 2>&1
instead of that?
&> something.log
Yes, "&>" is a bashism, but so what?
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