if – in what situations does this work?
 

I tried this with the $? variable, but failed. Seems like [[ $? ]] is
always true no matter the value of $?. [[ $? == 0 ]] seems to work,
though.

I thought that �if [[ $? ]]� means �if $? is True�. What is True
anyway? 0? 1? Anything but 0?

I am not sure what I am asking for here, but any kind of input in the
subject is welcome. Thanks.


Kind regards

Johnny Rosenberg
ジョニー・ãƒ*ーゼンãƒ�ーグ

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if – in what situations does this work?
 

First of all I suppose you're using the bash.
Amoung others the shell treats several parameters specially; these
parameters may only be referenced and assignement to them is not
allowed.


One of them is $?, which expands to the exit status of the most
recently executed command. However, the exit status 0 means that the
command has been executed without errors; any other return value has to
be interpreted as error code.

e.g.
# any command ...
if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
# error handling
fi

/franzR
On Sat, 18 Feb 2012 13:56:50 +0100, Johnny Rosenberg wrote:

I tried this with the $? variable, but failed. Seems like [[ $? ]] is
always true no matter the value of $?. [[ $? == 0 ]] seems to work,
though.

I thought that �if [[ $? ]]� means �if $? is True�. What is True
anyway? 0? 1? Anything but 0?

I am not sure what I am asking for here, but any kind of input in the
subject is welcome. Thanks.


Kind regards

Johnny Rosenberg
ジョニー・ãƒ*ーゼンãƒ�ーグ
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