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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Returning an exit code from a bash function Post 302989938 by jim mcnamara on Thursday 19th of January 2017 11:38:32 PM
Old 01-20-2017
PS: this is what I get for test.sh and my system

Code:
Owner@Owner-PC ~
$ chmod +x test.sh

Owner@Owner-PC ~
$ ./test.sh
./test.sh: line 2: return: can only `return' from a function or sourced script

Owner@Owner-PC ~
$ bash --version
GNU bash, version 4.4.5(1)-release (x86_64-unknown-cygwin)
Copyright (C) 2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>

This is free software; you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

I do not want to boot to linux && have to shutdown my windows stuff right now - so cygwin.
 

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FALSE(1)							   User Commands							  FALSE(1)

NAME
false - do nothing, unsuccessfully SYNOPSIS
false [ignored command line arguments] false OPTION DESCRIPTION
Exit with a status code indicating failure. --help display this help and exit --version output version information and exit NOTE: your shell may have its own version of false, which usually supersedes the version described here. Please refer to your shell's doc- umentation for details about the options it supports. AUTHOR
Written by Jim Meyering. REPORTING BUGS
Report false bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.org GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/> General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/> COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>. This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. SEE ALSO
The full documentation for false is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and false programs are properly installed at your site, the command info coreutils 'false invocation' should give you access to the complete manual. GNU coreutils 7.1 July 2010 FALSE(1)
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