[ILUG] return codes

John P. Looney jplooney-ilug at online.ie
Tue Mar 7 10:19:53 GMT 2000


On Tue, Mar 07, 2000 at 10:07:41AM +0000, Con Hennessy mentioned:
> "John P. Looney" wrote:
> >  Can bash print out the return code of the last command ?
> >  (handy for my $PS1)
> Try $? 

 Had that, actually, though bash doesn't evaluate variables ever time.
That's why it wasn't working. D'oh.

Kate

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