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04-12-2007

videsh77

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Capturing last command execution status in a script.

How to capture output or numeric part given by $? command into the variable?

If I go for

var=`$?`

then $var is found empty.

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04-12-2007

reborg

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go simpler again than what you tried...

var=$?

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videsh77

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Thanks, it worked.

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