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What is meant by "$?" in shell?

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I am using Debian 6.0. I know the regular command line arguments but couldn't find what is meant for? Does anyone have an idea of what is meant by in Linux shell?

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bash, not shell. (Bash is but one of several possible shells. It is the most common though) It means the exit code of the last command that executed. See here: http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/othertypesv.html and here http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/exit-…

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