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Operating Systems HP-UX Return of EXIT status ( $? ) Post 302174800 by nua7 on Wednesday 12th of March 2008 07:07:24 AM
Old 03-12-2008
Bug

This should help...
basename=${0##*/}
trap 'print "$basename: Unexpected rc $? at line $LINENO"; exit 1' ERR # exits script for any non-zero return-code
trap '
#
# command to clean up on any script exit, any rc value
#
' EXIT
 

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intro(1)						      General Commands Manual							  intro(1)

NAME
intro - Introduction to commands DESCRIPTION
Section 1 describes the commands available for all Tru64 UNIX users. Some reference pages in this section may contain suffixes to allow their files to exist with those of other reference pages having the same base name and section number. When used, suffixes are made up of one to four letters. See the man(1) reference page for more information on suffixes. Commands related to system maintenance appear in Section 8. ERRORS
On termination, each command returns two bytes of status, one supplied by the system giving the cause for termination and, in the case of normal termination, one supplied by the program. For more information, see exit(2). The first byte is 0 for normal termination; the sec- ond byte is customarily 0 for successful execution. A nonzero status indicates a problem, such as erroneous parameters, or bad or inacces- sible data. The status value is called variously exit code, exit status, or return code, and is described explicitly on reference pages only when special conventions apply. SEE ALSO
Commands: man(1) Functions: exit(2) intro(1)
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