How can I get Cygwin to see the NT ERRORLEVEL Environment Variable

[Rick Rankin]

ERRORLEVEL is a variable that is set and maintained by cmd.exe. The Cygwin
(actually bash) equivalent would be the variable $?, e.g.,

some_command param1 param2 ...
if [ $? != 0]
then
  # The command failed
fi

There are a number of possible variations on this syntax. The equivalent exists
for csh/tcsh, but I don't use any of the csh-like shells, so I don't know the
syntax off the top of my head.

--Rick
--- Jon Belinfante <Jon_Belinfante@cwb.com> wrote:
> Doing echo $ERRORLEVEL on cygwin returns a blank
> where doing echo %ERRORLEVEL% at a DOS prompt returns 0.
> 
> Has anyone got any ideas
> 
> 
> 
> 
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