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in thread Effect of redirecting output to /dev/null on $? value

What does the 26902 value indicate?

pid? I don't think I've ever seen a message like that.

It's not a exit status. 26902 = 0x6916. As a status, this would mean the process exited with code 0x69 and it was killed by signal 0x16, but those are mutually exclusive.

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