Andy Ball <ball@cyberspace.org> wrote:

> If I call a program (I'm thinking of xmessage initially,
> but it would be helful to know in general), and that
> program returns an exit value, how do I access that in
> the next line of the shell script?  Is it stuffed in an
> environment variable somewhere?

$? usually, I think.  At least in bourne- and korn-shell.

-Jan

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