Re: [ROOT] returning ROOT status to the shell

From: Fons Rademakers (Fons.Rademakers@cern.ch)
Date: Fri Jan 19 2001 - 10:53:40 MET

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Hi Robert,

  several people have asked for this. We are working on it.

Cheers, Fons.



Robert Feuerbach wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have a feature request: can ROOT be made to ROOT return a value other
> than zero?
> 
> I'd like to be able to run ROOT in the batch mode ( 'root -b -l -q' )
> and if it encounters an error or the macro-file exits with a return value,
> can that value be returned to the shell?
> 
> This is so I can run root in a script or a Makefile and test for success.
> eg:
> 
> $root_stat=`root -b -l -q mymacro.C`
> if [ $root_stat -ne 0 ]; then
>   echo "Broken Macro!!"
>   return 1
> fi
> 
> Thanks,
> Rob
> 
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