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
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Chris Adams <[email protected]>
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