[Gllug] show non-zero exit code in bash

[Greater London Linux User Group]

salsaman <salsaman at xs4all.nl> writes:

> I was playing around with this idea over Christmas, here is what I
> came up with:
>
> _() { $@; echo $?; }
>
>
> then after that, you can run any command with _<space> before it, e.g.:
>
> _ false
> _ true

I tried (not very hard, I admit) to find a way to do this without the
massive overhead of having to type '_ '. Couldn't.

Mind you, thinking about it a bit there seems to be something
fundamentally wrong with the idea that the shell could mess with the
stdout/err of a command.

Matthew

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