10-27-2010
well...
What you are calling a child script is not really a child. The dot command makes the script run in the current shell. So when it exits, its the same as if the exit was in the "parent".
Try setting a variable instead of exiting, then test that variable back in the "parent" instead of testing RetCode.
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The shells file contains a list of the shells on the system. Applications use this file to determine whether a shell is valid. See getuser-
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