How to check exit status of a command ?

$stat stat: missing operand Try ‘stat –help’ for more information. $echo $? 1 $stat popen1-p1.c File: ‘popen1-p1.c’ Size: 473 Blocks: 8 IO Block: 4096 regular file Device: 801h/2049d Inode: 5245647 Links: 1 Access: (0644/-rw-r–r–) Uid: ( 1000/ jeffrin) Gid: ( 1000/ jeffrin) Access: 2014-06-16 23:31:58.746088758 +0530 Modify: 2014-06-16 23:31:27.649735653 +0530 Change: 2014-06-16 23:31:27.649735653 +0530 Birth: …

Hacking with a program which has initialization of a MYSQL object

$ls connect1-p1.c $cp connect1-p1.c connect1-p2.c $emacs connect1-p2.c $gcc -lmysqlclient -g -L/usr/lib/mysql connect1-p2.c $./a.out mysql_init failed $echo $? 1 $./a.out 2> error.txt $cat error.txt mysql_init failed $emacs connect1-p2.c $gcc -lmysqlclient -g -L/usr/lib/mysql connect1-p2.c $./a.out mysql_init failed $./a.out 2> error.txt mysql_init failed $cat error.txt $