On Wed, 23 Oct 2002, christopher j bottaro wrote:
> first off, are there any mailing lists where i can ask questions about
> bash scripting?
I spend a lot of time on the Moongroup shell.scripting list at:
http://moongroup.com/mailman/listinfo/shell.scripting
> anyways, i want to assign the exit status of a command in a variable as an
> integer. i tried the following:
> let x=`./configure --prefix=$1`
> but it doesn't work.
You can't do that. Bash has a builtin variable ("$?") for holding the exit
status, which you can then reassign to another variable if you need to
store it for later use. For example:
x=$?
or you can just test the exit status directly with conditional expressions
such as:
./configure && make && make install
make uninstall || echo "Help me, I've failed and I can't get up!"
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