Question

i wrote a script that make a dump of mysql dbs, i need to check if the command succfully executed or not. using $? give me always 0 even if there are a connection problem with the db server. any idea how can i do this thanks

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Script

#!/bin/sh
mysqldump -h 192.168.1.10 -u user -pPaSSwOrD dbname > filename.sql
if [ "$?" -eq 0 ]; then
    echo "Success"
else
    echo "Error"
fi

is successfully showing errors for connection timeouts, wrong dbname, wrong username and password. It only doesn't check integrity of dump taken, but it's another story.

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