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svanberg

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Registered: 2009-07-16

Posts: 88

Exit codes and error handling

I have read that you can grab exit codes from some builtin commands like cp, mv, grep etc. How do i do that?
And can I grab exit codes from various programs like mplayer or vlc in my script?

Last edited by svanberg (2009-07-26 23:19:05)

DonVla

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From: Bonn, Germany

Registered: 2007-06-07

Posts: 997

Re: Exit codes and error handling

<command> ; EXIT_CODE=$?