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It's the best kind of correct, yes.

• nikau 4y ago
  It's a pretty bizarre use case, why would you need the second if statement, you already are in logic based on the return code I can't think of an example of the if statement being confusing that isn't relying on $?
  • dataflow 4y ago
    error=0 if ! some_command; then error=$?; bar; fi echo "blah" return $error
    • nikau 4y ago
      Yep that's a valid scenario, if you need more granularity than just fail or success then you will have to use a different method, e.g. Status=0 Somecommand || status=$? Then do logic based on status