shell script question

[Stryker]

In bash of course...

I would like to be able to do something like:

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Can anyone help with making the above work properly?

In case you can't tell, I want to make a script that will tell me when I get online. As with ifup it doesn't say the dialing status.

Thanks

[Faust]

WHy not just make a script to ping some "always up" site (google) every so often and then report connnection statuse based on the last ping?

[Stryker]

quote:Originally posted by Faust:
WHy not just make a script to ping some "always up" site (google) every so often and then report connnection statuse based on the last ping?

Because I wanna do it this way    

Good thing to know anyways

[solo]

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The bash if statement doesn't do conditional at all, the test builtin does. Bash creates an alias called '[' so you can do 'if [ "$x" = 2 ]; then' and make it look nice. The if statement actually just performs another statement, and if the statement returns 0 then it does the stuff between 'then' and 'fi'. And of course all executables and bash commands return status integers.

So you were close.