$ rm file $ echo $? $ 0 Silent, unless you go looking. The return value of the last executed command is available as $?. I picked this up at http://www.r

$ rm file $ echo $? $ 0 Silent, unless you go looking. The return value of the last executed command is available as $?. I picked this up at http://www.rsync.net/resources/howto/remote_commands.html http://www.rsync.net/resources/howto/remote_commands.html for running commands over ssh and not seeing the console output.