bashscriptingexit-code

Is it possible to get the exit code from a subshell?

Let's imagine I have a bash script, where I call this:

bash -c "some_command"
do something with code of some_command here

Is it possible to obtain the code of some_command? I'm not executing some_command directly in the shell running the script because I don't want to alter it's environment.

Solution

  • $? will contain the return code of some_command just as usual.

    Of course it might also contain a code from bash, in case something went wrong before your command could even be executed (wrong filename, whatnot).