OT scripting question

[Christian Löw]

On Mon, Apr 28, 2003 at 01:19:05PM -0400, Jeff McKeon wrote:

> When using a command like grep that returns an exit status (0 for match,
> 1 for no match, 2 for errors) how i use that exit status in a script. 
> In other words, what variable is assigned the 0, 1 or 2?
> 
> So if i had:
> 
> # look for "hello" in /tmp/somefile
> 
> /bin/grep -q hello /tmp/somefile
> 
> /bin/echo (exit status)

/bin/echo  $?


Chris


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