Changing the value of $?

[Angel Tsankov]

How can I most easily and most safely set the value of $? to
non-zero?

[Ralf Fassel]

* "Angel Tsankov" <***@fmi.uni-sofia.bg>
| How can I most easily and most safely set the value of $? to
| non-zero?

man false

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[Chris F.A. Johnson]

Post by Angel Tsankov
How can I most easily and most safely set the value of $? to
non-zero?

Run a command that will fail, e.g., any one of:

false

[ $1 -eq 2 ]

[ x = "" ]

grep '^root:@@@:' /etc/passwd

find -name a b 2>/dev/null