Re: How to set $?

[Seth David Schoen]

Jeffrey Walton writes:

> Hi Everyone,
> 
> I have a script that executes two sets of commands. If the first set
> fails, I want to return the error code of the first set. For example:
> 
>     apt-get update && apt-get upgrade -y && apt-get dist-upgrade -y
>     saved_result="$?"
>     apt-get autoremove --purge -y && apt-get autoclean -y
>     $?="$saved_result"
> 
> How do I set $?

I'm not sure this is the most elegant solution, but you can make a
subshell with an exit command:

( exit "$saved_result" )