[KLUG Programming] Re: [KLUG Members] getting exit code in bash script (and more)

[bill]

And now I ran some tests on my original script, it's in there too.

But, I can't find it yet in any actual script.  How does it get there? 
An email thing?

b.

On Fri, 2005-03-11 at 15:16, bill wrote:
> 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.
> 
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