Help understanding what this ls -l command is checking in a script
Hello,
we have a script that has the two following lines:
I can't understand what these two lines are doing?
When I execute the first line nothing is output. I get that the command is being directed somewhere that is not shown. And when I execute the echo $? line I get a number. Not sure what this number means though? Is this command checking if I can successfully login to this server or not?
Also, is there a way to concatenate the two lines into one command line instruction to return the value?
Thank you.
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