return code help - Shell Programming and Scripting

learnbash · #5 (**permalink**) 02-10-2009

Quote:

Originally Posted by vgersh99

no, 'ls' does not always return '0'.
here's what 'man ls' yields:

Code:

EXIT STATUS
     0     All information was written successfully.

     >0    An error occurred.

just curious, why would you want to return a non-zero value when 'ls' was successful?

Hello,

Thanks once again for quick reply, i understand what you are saying actually i want to make all commands return code to "1", ls is just an example.

Thanks.
Bash