Re: view the exit status from command line

[Ken Irving <fnkci@uaf.edu>]

On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 04:21:17PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:
> Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <kamaraju@bluebottle.com> writes:
> 
> >>> I want to know if the command exited with status zero or non-zero. Can
> >>> this be done in a simple way?
> >> 
> >> $test -x debian/rules; echo $?
> >> 
> >
> > Thanks. Exactly what I am after!
> 
> Here's a $0.02 recipe from my ~/.bashrc:
> 
> if [ "$PS1" ]; then
>    PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -n "$? "'
> fi
> 
> This way, an interactive bash will print the exit status of the last
> command before its prompt, so you can _always_ see it.  Very handy,
> IMO. :-)

Thanks for this great idea!

-- 
Ken Irving, fnkci@uaf.edu