From: Kyle Schmitt <kyleaschmitt@...>
Date: 2008-08-02T06:34:47+09:00
Subject: Re: Capturing shell command output and success?

On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 3:19 PM, Ståle Z.H <szerener@gmail.com> wrote:
> The return value of the program is stored in $? as far as I can see. I
> tested it on my laptop, and $? was set to 0 when the command succeeded
> and 1 when it didn't. (Of course, the return value depends on the
> program, but non-zero is generally considered failure.)

Right, but standard error goes into lala land.

I was hoping for something a bit cleaner than executing with %x then
checking the $? value.


I may try this systemu command...