Exit codes

To see whether a shell command succeeded, use sysval:

sysval

which expands to the exit status of the last shell command run with syscmd or esyscmd.

syscmd(`false')
=>
ifelse(sysval, 0, zero, non-zero)
=>non-zero
syscmd(`true')
=>
sysval
=>0

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