how to get exit status of last command

[csfreebird]

Hi,
In bash, using echo $? to get the last command's exit status. But how to get it in newlisp?
e.g.
In bash, I get 0, it means the /user/chenshu folder exists in HDFS

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hdfs dfs -test -e /user/chenshu
echo $?
0

In newlisp, I have to get it using following way:

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> (exec "hdfs dfs -test -e /user/chenshu;echo $?")
14/10/27 09:19:33 WARN util.NativeCodeLoader: Unable to load native-hadoop library for your platform... using builtin-java classes where applicab\
le
("0")

But I have to cut the warning message before ("0"), it's strange and not convenient.
Any way to get the exist status quickly?

[ralph.ronnquist]

Not sure if its convenient enough, but (! ..) returns the process status, and prints sub process output. So, you might discard that on the command, and do:

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(! "hdfs dfs -test -e /user/chenshu > /dev/null 2>&1")

That only gives the return status.

[csfreebird]

I find an easy way to let exec return the correct status of command,
I wrote a newlisp script file for testing:

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#!/usr/bin/newlisp

(set 'x (exec "hdfs dfs -test -d /user/chenshu;echo $?"))
(println "x: " x)
(exit)

The output is:
x: ("0")

[csfreebird]

Not sure if its convenient enough, but (! ..) returns the process status, and prints sub process output. So, you might discard that on the command, and do:

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(! "hdfs dfs -test -e /user/chenshu > /dev/null 2>&1")

That only gives the return status.

Thanks. But your way cannot be applied to all cases.
e.g.

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(println (! "hdfs dfs -test -s /user/chenshu > /dev/null 2>&1"))

It outputs 256. But the command in bash outputs 1

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[chenshu@hadoopMaster ~]$ hdfs dfs -test -s /user/chenshu
14/10/27 22:17:48 WARN util.NativeCodeLoader: Unable to load native-hadoop library for your platform... using builtin-java classes where applicab\
le
[chenshu@hadoopMaster ~]$ echo $?
1

[ralph.ronnquist]

Not sure if its convenient enough, but (! ..) returns the process status, and prints sub process output. So, you might discard that on the command, and do:

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(! "hdfs dfs -test -e /user/chenshu > /dev/null 2>&1")

That only gives the return status.

Thanks. But your way cannot be applied to all cases.
e.g.

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(println (! "hdfs dfs -test -s /user/chenshu > /dev/null 2>&1"))

It outputs 256. But the command in bash outputs 1

Fair enough. The manual is comfortably unspecific about the return value of "!", and it probably is more portable to use your method:

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(int (last (exec (string cmd ";echo $?")))

A bit of experimenting indicates that on my machine (32-bit linux), "!" returns the command status up shifted 8 bits, which kind of is on a par with the "system" man page, if you read it upside down. It thus needs down shifting to recover the actual command return code:

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(>> (! cmd) 8)

However, this might not be portable.