Get the exitcode of the shell script in a “trap EXIT”
问题 I want to have a cleanup action in my Bash scripts, like this: #! /bin/bash set -eu trap 'echo "E: failed with exitcode $?" 1>&2' ERR true false Using $? came to mind as a natural choice, but this isn't the case. It always contains 0 . Is there any way that I can "spy" on the exitcode in the ERR trap? [Update:] I have no idea what I had tested before. This code works like a charm, so I'm leaving it here as a small and good example. 回答1: Your ( probably simplified ) example doesn't exhibit the