Fwd: Re: exit code ?

[Todd C. Miller]

In message <20000328141559.21300.qmail at web204.mail.yahoo.com>
	so spake George Meharry II (gmeharry):

> I think the question is how to get the $status from
> the command sudo executed.

It's still just $status or $? depending on the shell.  Since
sudo execs the program to run you get the program's exit value,
not sudo's (when you exec something the program that is execed
overwrites the other process).  The only reason you would get
sudo's exit value would be if there was an error (like it the
program to exec wasn't found).

To wit:

xerxes [~] % sudo true; echo $status
0

xerxes [~] % sudo false ; echo $status
1

xerxes [~] % sudo does_not_exist ; echo $status
sudo: does_not_exist: command not found
1

 - todd

 - todd