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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to retrieve "case "statement return value ? Post 303021260 by annacreek on Tuesday 7th of August 2018 12:20:59 PM
Old 08-07-2018
I do not understand your questions.

case statement and if statement will return a value other that zero when they fail.
The values are numeric and indicate error codes - pretty normal in many languages.

For example in c you write int function_name (.... return X } Such syntax defines "int " as being passed from the function to the calling code.



Similar syntax must be in bash and that is what I am looking for.
 

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