Once upon a time, John Reiser <[email protected]> said:
> Warning: This is intrusive because reading the status code via "$?" resets it 
> to zero:
>    $ false
>    $ echo $?
>    1
>    $ echo $?
>    0

That is incorrect.  The second reading of $? is the exit code of running
"echo $?" (which succeeded).  Just reading the variable does not reset it.

    $ false
    $ echo $? $?
    1 1

-- 
Chris Adams <[email protected]>
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