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Old 03-15-2006
Exit codes in Korn shell
Hi,

Can anyone give me the explanation for the exit codes 1 and 127 returned from Korn shell.

Thanks in advance.
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Old 03-15-2006
127 - exit status returned when command executed is not found
1 - there could be many reasons like
word expansion, redirection return value from command executed over the interpreter
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Old 03-15-2006
Actually assuming the codes mean something when you run somebody else's code can be a stretch.

The defacto standard for these things comes from BSD's sysexits.h

See: http://www.hmug.org/man/3/sysexits.php for an explanation of "standard" exit codes, proposed to be standard anyway.

The Linux Documentation Project has an unofficial guide -
http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/unofficialst.html
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