Personally, unless there is some overriding reason why you have to have this be portable across both Unix and NT, I would write it for one system. And, I would write it in the shell scripting language of that system. That's what shell scripting is for.
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In reply to Re^7: Need to capture return code
by dragonchild
in thread Need to capture return code
by James_Marcinek
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