${?} or $?
contains exit status of last command run,
I believe
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Kervin Pierre, CCNA
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On Thu, 3 Feb 2000, [iso-8859-1] Sebasti�n Ferraro wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I want to execute a command from within a bash script, and I need to use
> its exit status, like in
>
> if [ <exit_status_of command> -eq 1 ] ; then ...
>
> How could I do this?
>
> The command to be called is the caller script, in a recursive fashion,
> so I can't use exported variables.
>
> I am sure the answer is on the bash man page, but I can't find it.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Seba
>
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