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From: "Gluszczak, Glenn" <Glenn.Gluszczak@dell.com>
To: "'cygwin@cygwin.com'" <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Subject: RE: Errorlevel
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2016 19:46:50 +0000
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Sorry it's a Windows defect.  Builtin CMD echo does not set an errorlevel.

Glenn

-----Original Message-----
From: Gluszczak, Glenn 
Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2016 2:48 PM
To: 'cygwin@cygwin.com'
Subject: Errorlevel

Is this a known defect?  The errorlevel of the ls command is passed to the echo.

$ cmd
Microsoft Windows [Version 6.3.9600]
(c) 2013 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\cygwin64\home\Administrator>del c:\tmp\hello del c:\tmp\hello Could Not Find c:\tmp\hello

C:\cygwin64\home\Administrator>ls foo
ls foo
ls: cannot access 'foo': No such file or directory

C:\cygwin64\home\Administrator>echo hello > c:\tmp\hello echo hello > c:\tmp\hello

C:\cygwin64\home\Administrator>echo %errorlevel% echo %errorlevel%
2

C:\cygwin64\home\Administrator>del c:\tmp\hello del c:\tmp\hello

C:\cygwin64\home\Administrator>echo hello > c:\tmp\hello echo hello > c:\tmp\hello

C:\cygwin64\home\Administrator>echo %errorlevel% echo %errorlevel%
0


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