That's correct behavior though. You should do if ARG=false Then use $ARG not $? ...

dataflow · on Oct 7, 2022

It's the best kind of correct, yes.

nikau · on Oct 7, 2022

It's a pretty bizarre use case, why would you need the second if statement, you already are in logic based on the return code

I can't think of an example of the if statement being confusing that isn't relying on $?

dataflow · on Oct 7, 2022

  error=0
  if ! some_command; then error=$?; bar; fi
  echo "blah"
  return $error

nikau · on Oct 7, 2022

Yep that's a valid scenario, if you need more granularity than just fail or success then you will have to use a different method, e.g.

Status=0

Somecommand || status=$?

Then do logic based on status