Checking XCOPY Exit Value in Cygwin Bash

Sun Aug 6 17:16:00 GMT 2006

Igor Peshansky wrote:
> Nope, you didn't have to. Something like
>> (cd "2ドル/.." && find "2ドル" -name "*.1ドル" | tar cfT - -) | tar xfC - "3ドル"
>> would do the job of "XCOPY /S" using POSIX means.
>>> If you go POSIX, you can use the --keep-newer-files tar option.
>>> Of course it didn't. Please read a good bash tutorial, or the "Special
> Parameters" section of the bash manpage.
>Hi Igor and Mark,
 Thank you very much for the quick reply.
I was initially using 
tar -cf - `find "$source_dir" -name "*.$file_ext" -print` | ( cd "$dest_dir" && tar xBf - )
but it had a problem with path names with spaces. Obviously being not that good in bash scripting, I couldn't get over that issue. So that was why I decided to use the XCOPY command. I will use your method and see. Thanks again.
	I made a silly mistake in my former email. I was actually checking $? (not $!) for the exit code, but it didn't work. But I saw in a later reply from Mark that it worked for him. I will check it again. Maybe I was doing something silly.
thanks again 
Regards
Shane
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