How to check previous command status in BASH?

BASH is the default shell in GNU/Linux systems.  While writing BASH scripts sometimes it become necessary to take action based upon the success of previous command. So how do we do this.

First we need to understand that almost every command that is run once completed returns a exit code, 99% of commands just use 0 for success, 1 for failure. Without getting into other details, lets see how we can use this value.

GNU/Linux: Understanding important installation steps

The hard drive need to be partitioned properly before you can install GNU/Linux system, some time if you want to keep the existing OS, you will need to resize the existing parts to make space for the new OS

GNU/Linux Advantages and Pre-Install checklist

The Linux kernel is widely used now a days to for a usable system, generally what people refer as an OS, which we prefer to call as GNU/Linux distribution.  Linux itself is available as a Free Software as well as most of the GNU/Linux Distributions are also available under similar FOSS licenses.

Introduction to GNU, Linux and Open Source

Linux is an operating system, core kernel or the actual operating system.  It was developed by Linus Torvalds. The first prototypes of Linux were publicly released later that year (1991) under the GNU General Public License, designed and drafted by  Richard Stallman commonly knows as RMS the free software guru.

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