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Error handling with status codes in BASH
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| #do something if error code denotes a failure | |
| if [ $? -gt 0 ]; then | |
| echo "something went wrong!" | |
| fi | |
| #status checking in command pipe | |
| cat textfile.txt | ( [[ $? == 0 ]] && grep "cat" ) |
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