[KLUG Members] getting exit code in bash script

[Bruce Smith]

That's because you need to execute something in the "if" statement.
If you uncomment the echo statements, it works fine.

If you really want to do nothing, give it a no-op statement, which is
just a colon.

Please follow up to this thread on the programming list.

 - BS


> I tried this:
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> ls
> exitcode=$?
> if [ $exitcode -eq 0 ]
>    then
>       #echo "Everything is O.K."
>    else 
>       #echo "$exitcode"
> fi
> 
> and still get errors:
> 
> ./testexitcode.sh: line 9: syntax error near unexpected token `fi'
> ./testexitcode.sh: line 9: `fi'