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Thanks guys.
As RudiC pointed out, I was assuming I know how 'if' works from previous knowledge,
and Scrutinizer I went to the help for 'if' and see now. Years of programming elsewhere just got me...

Correct me if I mis-understand, but you're saying that basically the 'if' evaluator of bash makes the determination that it has been passed a command, and that an exit status of '0' should equate to...

So I'm trying to understand exactly what happens if you do as mentioned in title...my example:
[user@pc /]$ nslookup www.google.com &>/dev/null;echo $?
0
[user@pc /]$ nslookup foo.google.com...

Thanks, I'll see where I can get with that. Hopefully I will get to poke around and try it today.

Also, probably should have stated the script itself starts chromium-browser

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Hi all,
I'm new to Linux, been at it a couple weeks. I have written a script that basically acts as a watchdog to ping a server on a set interval, make sure chromium-browser is running, and a...