How to check the exit status using an if statement

Question

I was wondering what would be the best way to check the exit status in an if statement in order to echo a specific output.

I\'m thinking of it being

Answer 1

For the record, if the script is run with set -e (or #!/bin/bash -e) and you therefore cannot check $? directly (since the script would terminate on any return code other than zero), but want to handle a specific code, @gboffis comment is great:

/some/command || error_code=$?
if [ "${error_code}" -eq 2 ]; then
   ...