Saturday, January 23, 2010

DIsplay return code of a shell command

If you need to determine the return code for shell scripting, you can use "$?"
# ifconfig | grep eth0 >/dev/null 2>&1
# echo $?
0 => good/found
# ifconfig | grep eth1111 >/dev/null 2>&1
# echo $?
1 => bad/not found

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