bash question

[Ralph W. Reid]

Try `echo $?` immediately after the program is finished (before
running anything else).  HTH and have a _great_ day!

On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 11:39:18PM -0500, Gregory Nowak wrote:
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> Hi all.
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> 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.
> 
> Greg
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