Subject: RE: listing files without ls
From: Arthur Corliss (arthur@corlissfamily.org)
Date: Mon May 06 2002 - 20:24:41 AKDT
> That's because I don't know how to do that! Until now! Thanks Arthur.
A few things to elaborate on: processes which successfully run will always
return zero (the programmer could be obtuse and force his program to return
something else, but that's the accepted convention). Many programs, like
grep, return many different types of codes depending on the problem
encountered. These are usually documented in the man pages.
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