Re: How to fail on a find with grep using make?

[Gary Turner]

That worked perfectly.
Thanks very much.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Eli Zaretskii" <address@hidden>
To: "Gary Turner" <address@hidden>
Cc: <address@hidden>
Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 8:52 AM
Subject: Re: How to fail on a find with grep using make?


> > From: "Gary Turner" <address@hidden>
> > Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 21:41:00 +1300
> >
> > I'm using grep to compile files created by a gui editor. Occasionally a 
> > 'bad
> > thing' gets into the files, and I'd like the compile to fail if that 'bad
> > thing' is found in the file. By default grep 'fails' on not found, which
> > would normally stop make.
> > What I want is something like  error if not grep 'bad thing' $<
> > I'm using cmd.exe.
>
> Does the following work for you?  It should work on W2K and later,
> AFAIK.
>
> foo: bar
> cmd /c "grep BADTHING $< & if not ERRORLEVEL 1 exit 1"