On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 12:51:16PM +0530, Kaushal Shriyan wrote: > I wanted to know the various exit status code > For example > #pwd ; echo $? > /root > 0 > > Here 0 means successful, and 127 means unsuccessful *GENERALLY*, 0 means success and non-zero an error. But remember, every exit code is just a programmer's choice for whatever command you're using; there's no enforcement other than by convention. If you're going to use an exit code from a command, take a look at the man page and see what it's documented to mean. Cheers, -- Dave Ihnat President, DMINET Consulting, Inc. dihnat@xxxxxxxxxx
