Shell Programming and Scripting

$ cat parent.ksh
#!/usr/bin/ksh

if ./child_works.ksh
then
        print "./child_works.ksh completed successfully"
else
        print "./child_works.ksh failed with error code $?"
fi

if ./child_broken.ksh
then
        print "./child_broken.ksh completed successfully"
else
        print "./child_broken.ksh failed with error code $?"
fi
$ cat child_works.ksh
#!/usr/bin/ksh

echo "I succeeded"
exit 0
$ cat child_broken.ksh
#!/usr/bin/ksh

print "I failed"
exit 17
$ ./parent.ksh
I succeeded
./child_works.ksh completed successfully
I failed
./child_broken.ksh failed with error code 17
$