Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 10:29:06 -0400 From: Daniel Frazier <dfrazier@magpage.com> To: Eric Boucher <eric_boucher60@yahoo.com> Cc: FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Prog.: Knowing the exit code in command line Message-ID: <3B0531B2.4655BDE1@magpage.com> References: <20010518141010.32324.qmail@web9406.mail.yahoo.com>
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Eric Boucher wrote: > > Hi there, > > I wanted to know something. I remember that somebody > told me that there were a way to know what is the exit > code a command line return. For exemple, imagine that > I've just type the command "ls -l" in a shell, if I > want to know the integer that Unix just return after > doing that command, what can I do? I think it's a > simple command with the "$" symbol, but I didn't > remember it. > assuming bash or sh... echo $? will do the trick. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Daniel Frazier <dfrazier@magpage.com> Tel: 302-239-5900 Ext. 231 Systems Administrator Fax: 302-239-3909 MAGPAGE, We Power the Internet WWW: http://www.magpage.com/ "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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