On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 02:39:18PM EST, Gregory Nowak wrote: > If I'm running a program by invoking it from a bash prompt, can > someone please tell me how I can check it's return value? I looked at > the bash man page, but couldn't find anything on this. Thanks. You could do it from a bash script, by using the $? variable I think it is. hth Luke