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From:	Stephen Powell <stephen_powell AT optusnet DOT com DOT au>
Subject:	Re: 1.3.15 on W2K: return codes, bash, cmd.exe
Date:	Fri, 06 Dec 2002 13:52:53 +1100
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On Wed, 04 Dec 2002, angela AT dragaera DOT releasedominatrix DOT com wrote:


[...]

> The .bat scripts do some minimal error checking and exit with
> "exit /b 1" on error.

Try it without the /b, just "exit 1".


With /b:
$ cat a.bat
exit /b 2
$ cmd /c a.bat ; echo rc=$?
C:\winnt\temp>exit /b 2 
rc=0

Without /b:
$ cat b.bat
exit 2
$ cmd /c b.bat ; echo rc=$?
C:\winnt\temp>exit 2 
rc=2

$ cmd /ver
Microsoft Windows 2000 [Version 5.00.2195]
(C) Copyright 1985-2000 Microsoft Corp.

-- 
Stephen Powell
stephen_powell AT optusnet DOT com DOT au



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