[KLUG Programming] Re: [KLUG Members] getting exit code in bash script

[bill]

Bruce,

The problem does not seem to be in my gedit.

After some testing couldn't duplicate it, I ran some tests on your
original script.  

It seems that the weird character(s)

$'\302\240'

is in your original post:

#!/bin/sh
somecommand
exitcode=$?
if [ $exitcode -eq 0 ]
   then
      echo "Everything is O.K."
   else 
      echo the exit code for somecommand was: $exitcode
fi

When I save that snippet of code to a file (oddchar.txt) and then run

cat oddchar.txt | grep $'\302\240'

Every indented line shows the odd char.

Are you really sure you could run the version of the script you put in
the email?

Any idea what the weird character is?

b.