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Bash – capture exit code / result of last command

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Bash – capture exit code / result of last command

Capturing the exit code of the last command

Basically: Did things go well or were there errors?

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root@wintermute:/nfs# /etc/init.d/dnsmasq start  
* Starting DNS forwarder and DHCP server dnsmasq [ OK ]  
root@wintermute:/nfs# echo $?  
0

We get “0”, so yes - all is well.

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