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I'm not an advanced scripter, but if you just want a fail/suceed type response, you can do this: [code=xml](program1 arg arg2 arg3 blah blah blah) && (program2 blah blah blah)[/code] Then program2 will only execute if program1 exits with successful status (code 0). Also, this is all pretty basic stuff, so you can find whatever specific info you want online pretty easily: http://www.freeos.com/guides/lsst/

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You can write a script that ties the other two scripts together. As in: [code=xml] #!/bin/bash ./validate -f /home/jhon/tune.mpeg if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then ./import -1 elif [ $? -eq 1 ]; then ./import -2 fi exit 0[/code] Hope that helps (and I hope this isn't why you asked that last question in the forum ([url]http://www.linux.com/forums/topic/3729[/url] -- I had a feeling you didn't really want the name of the last command executed)! [Modified by: thobbs on December 22, 2008 02:45 PM]

This is no way to do it the way you want to. You have to either merge the two with a wrapper script, or edit to the two scripts to write and read the exit status from another file. So in the first program you run writes an exit status to something like /tmp/validate.exit (or whatever you want the file to be called) and the second one checks that file for the status and takes an appropriate measure. Those are your only two options.