checking wget's return value [if]

Question

I\'m writing a script to download a bunch of files, and I want it to inform when a particular file doesn\'t exist.

r=`wget -q www.someurl.com`
if [ $r -ne 0          


        

Answer 1

you could just

wget ruffingthewitness.com && echo "WE GOT IT" || echo "Failure"

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risk@DockMaster [2024] --> wget ruffingthewitness.com && echo "WE GOT IT" || echo "Failure" 
--2010-04-27 07:30:56--  http://ruffingthewitness.com/
Resolving ruffingthewitness.com... 69.56.251.239
Connecting to ruffingthewitness.com|69.56.251.239|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: unspecified [text/html]
Saving to: `index.html.1'

    [ <=>                                                                                    ] 14,252      72.7K/s   in 0.2s    

2010-04-27 07:30:58 (72.7 KB/s) - `index.html.1' saved [14252]

WE GOT IT
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risk@DockMaster [2025] --> wget ruffingthewitness.biz && echo "WE GOT IT" || echo "Failure"
--2010-04-27 07:31:05--  http://ruffingthewitness.biz/
Resolving ruffingthewitness.biz... failed: Name or service not known.
wget: unable to resolve host address `ruffingthewitness.biz'
zsh: exit 1     wget ruffingthewitness.biz
Failure
-(~)-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------(07:31 Tue Apr 27)
risk@DockMaster [2026] -->