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Old 08-04-2008
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Return code of command assigned to variable

How do I evaluate the result of a command assigned to a variable??

Example:

var1=`cmd`
rc=$?

rc will be the result of the assignment rather than cmd since it executes after. How do I evaluate the result of the command itself?

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