On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 09:06:03PM -0500, christopher j bottaro wrote:
> hello,
> first off, are there any mailing lists where i can ask questions about bash 
> scripting?  any good mailing list that deal with programming c in linux?
> 
> 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.
> 
> any tips?

Here's a very nice book/tutorial on bash scripting:
"Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide"

http://personal.riverusers.com/~thegrendel/abs-guide-1.6.tar.bz2

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