Re: exitcodes

[Brian Servis <servis@purdue.edu>]

*- On  2 Nov, Richard Clarke wrote about "exitcodes"
> I know this is slightly off topic, but could someone tell me how I can
> retrieve the exit code from a unix program and store it into a shell
> variable
>  

In most shells the exit code of the previous command it stored in the
shell variable $?. So depending on your shell you just need to assign
that to another variable for use later.

sh variants

<command>
STATUS=$?

csh variants
<command>
set STATUS=$?


See the man page for the shell you are using.

HTH,
Brian Servis
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