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redirection with option

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suhaimi

suhaimi

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Aug 3, 2001
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Hi all,
I would like to redirect the output in crontab, if and only if there's a string and remove the output file if the output is nothing. How I do that?

Rgds,
Suhaimi
 
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You can do something like this :
[tt]
command > logfile ; [ -s logfile ] || rm logfile
[/tt]

Jean Pierre.
 
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