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Linux Basics

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Program returns value and arguments

Every program return a value to operating system. It is also referred as exit status. In linux, a program returns 0 if successful. Otherwise a non-zero error number.

To check the return value of previous command you can check the value of a special variable "?"

    echo $?

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