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I received a suggested edit: "use the exit status that was set in the $(…) ... and in order not to change the function layout to much, just store it in a variable instead of returning it." Thank you, but, I like the idea of returning the exit status of the command substitution so that I can use the function in an if statement, as shown the in example at the bottom.

Robin A. Meade
– Robin A. Meade

2022-01-25 19:27:26 +00:00
Commented Jan 25, 2022 at 19:27

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