Is it possible to get the exit code from a subshell?

Question

Let\'s imagine I have a bash script, where I call this:

bash -c \"some_command\"
do something with code of some_command here

Is it possible to

Answer 1

Here's an illustration of $? and the parenthesis subshell mentioned by Paggas and Matti:

$ (exit a); echo $?
-bash: exit: a: numeric argument required
255
$ (exit 33); echo $?
33

In the first case, the code is a Bash error and in the second case it's the exit code of exit.