Re: bash feature suggestion, show command RC codes in history

[alex xmb ratchev]

On Wed, May 3, 2023, 16:25 Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> wrote:

> On 4/23/23 1:56 PM, Mark Schlegel wrote:
> > Bash has a history function, it would be useful if 'history' would show
> the exit codes (return codes) from all commands:
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> Thanks for the proposal. There have been various suggestions over the years
> about additional information attached to each history entry, including
> $PWD, $?, etc., but there are issues with doing that. Where $? starts to
> get messy, for example, is with asynchronous commands -- how do you tie the
> exit status of an arbitrary background job back to the right history entry?
>

by wait -n $pid alike

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