Bash script to execute and email job status

[trycash2]

Hi All, I'm fairly new to bash scripting, so thanks in advance for your help and if this question is more appropriate somewhere else please let me know.

I'm trying to write a script that will execute a job, email both the standard out and error and weather or not it was successfully completed. I think it would be fairly simple if I just redirected the standard out and error to a file but I'm trying to avoid that because I will have potentially hundreds of jobs running at the same time and I don't want them to be overwriting each other. So I've tried to just pipe the output to mail.

The problem is the command always exits with a zero because the mail program executes successfully even if the original program failed. Any ideas? Here's what I got so far:

#! /bin/bash

myCommand=$1
eval $myCommand 2>&1 | mail -s "Executed: $myCommand" myEmail

if [ $? = 0 ]
then
echo "Successful: $myCommand"
#mail -s "Successful: $myCommand" myEmail
else
echo "FALIURE: $myCommand"
#mail -s "FALIURE: $myCommand" myEmail
fi

exit

[Felarin]

Try putting a && behind the first command.

[trycash2]

I figured it out, needed to use the following:

exitStatus=${PIPESTATUS[0]}