Command line program exit code

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Title How to get the exit code from a command line program? URL Name P Article Number Environment Product: Progress Version: 9. Steps to Reproduce. Clarifying Information. Error Message. This code also appears if you attempt to execute a command that is in your current working directory.

For example, the script above that you gave execute permission is in your current directory, but you attempt to run the script without specifying where it is:. If this result occurs in a script, try adding the explicit path to the problem executable or script.

Spelling also counts when specifying an executable or a script. Exit status is the response received when an out-of-range exit code is used in programming. From my experience, exit status is not possible to produce. I have tried multiple actions for an example, and I can't make it happen. However, I can produce an exit status adjacent code.

If your exit code exceeds , the exit status returned is your exit code subtracted by This result sounds odd and can actually create an incorrect exit status. Check the examples to see for yourself. If you use as the exit code, your exit status is 1, and so on. If the exit code is a negative number, the resulting exit status is that number subtracted from So, if your exit code is 20, then the exit status is Troubling, isn't it? The solution, to me, is to avoid using exit codes that are reserved and out-of-range.

The proper range is If you're running a program or script and press Ctrl-C to stop it, your exit status is This status is easy to demonstrate. There's not much else to say about this one.

It's not a very useful exit status, but here it is for your reference. This final reserved exit status is easy to produce but difficult to interpret. The documentation that I've found states that you receive exit status if you use an exit code that's out of the range Some independent authorities say that is a general failure error code.

I can neither confirm nor deny that statement. I only know that I can produce exit status by running particular commands with no options.

There you have it: An overview of the reserved exit status numbers, their meanings, and how to generate them. My personal advice is to always check permissions and paths for anything you run, especially in a script, instead of relying on exit status codes. My debug method is that when a command doesn't work correctly in a script, I run the command individually in an interactive shell. This method works much better than trying fancy tactics with breaks and exits. I go this route because most of the time my errors are permissions related, so I've been trained to start there.

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System attempted to delete a folder that was supposed to be empty but it isn't. Extremely rarely, the Remove Folder Action may experience this error when deleting folders within a path of about 32, characters deep. Access violation. Indicates that the executed program has terminated abnormally or crashed.

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Another possible cause is that either gdi Error can indicate a bug in the executed software that causes stack overflow, leading to abnormal termination of the software.

Unhandled exception in. NET application. More details may be available in Windows Event log. For some error codes, Windows may provide a more friendly error message. If net help does not return a valid result, it can mean that the problem originates in external processes such as executed application or command syntax.

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