Logcheck devel - May 2004 - Re: [Logcheck-commits] CVS logcheck/src

On Sat, 15 May 2004, CVS User ttroxell wrote:
> I'm still thinking about the best way to handle egrep and logtail ret
vals.
 

for egrep we could check the existence of the file:
 egrep --text -v '^\s*$|^#' $dir/$rulefile >> $cleaned/$rulefile
 if [! -f $cleaned/$rulefile]; then
   error "Could not append to $cleaned/$rulefile.  Disk Full ?"
 elif [! -s $cleaned/$rulefile]; then
    if [ `egrep --text -v '^\s*$|^#' $dir/$rulefile|wc -l` > 0]; then
      error "Could not append to $cleaned/$rulefile.  Disk Full ?"
    fi
 fi

but the first check only works for the first egrep :(
well the second check came after same thoughts yesterday,
but this seems to introduce quite an overhead to grep 
every pattern twice, maybe this is an hint for someone else!?

a++ maks

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