Been using UNIX since the late 80s; Linux since the mid-90s; virtualization since the early 2000s and spent the past few years working in the cloud space.
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Not sure what your experience is, but mine is that it works pretty much exactly as one would reasonably expect. It's functionally equivalent to executing something like:
<COMMAND>
if [[ $? ]]
then
…
But without any shell-linters bitching about using an inefficient execution-form.
That said, you need to be familiar with what the subshelled-command's likely outputs are going to be. Which is to say:
If the subshelled-command has an output other than just an exit code, you need to suppress it. Some commands have a built-in "quiet" option; for those that don't, you can suppress by redirecting output to /dev/null. Failing to suppress output will tend to cause evaluation-logic to evaluate as a string of <COMMAND_OUTPUT><COMMAND_EXITCODE> rather than an integer of <COMMAND_EXITCODE>.
Similarly, if you care to handle more than a -eq 0 or -ne 0 output, you need to be familiar enough with the given command's possible exit-codes to set up the appropriate handlers you might want/need.
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Not sure what your experience is, but mine is that it works pretty much exactly as one would reasonably expect. It's functionally equivalent to executing something like:
But without any shell-linters bitching about using an inefficient execution-form.
That said, you need to be familiar with what the subshelled-command's likely outputs are going to be. Which is to say:
/dev/null. Failing to suppress output will tend to cause evaluation-logic to evaluate as a string of<COMMAND_OUTPUT><COMMAND_EXITCODE>rather than an integer of<COMMAND_EXITCODE>.-eq 0or-ne 0output, you need to be familiar enough with the given command's possible exit-codes to set up the appropriate handlers you might want/need.