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and Signals and Traps (Oh My!) - Part 1 by William Shotts, Jr. In this lesson, we're going to look at handling errors during the execution of linux error codes 127 your scripts. The difference between a good program and a poor one
Linux Kernel Error Codes
is often measured in terms of the program's robustness. That is, the program's ability to handle situations in
Linux Exit Codes
which something goes wrong. Exit status As you recall from previous lessons, every well-written program returns an exit status when it finishes. If a program finishes successfully, the exit
Linux Errorcode
status will be zero. If the exit status is anything other than zero, then the program failed in some way. It is very important to check the exit status of programs you call in your scripts. It is also important that your scripts return a meaningful exit status when they finish. I once had a Unix system administrator who wrote errno linux a script for a production system containing the following 2 lines of code: # Example of a really bad idea cd $some_directory rm * Why is this such a bad way of doing it? It's not, if nothing goes wrong. The two lines change the working directory to the name contained in $some_directory and delete the files in that directory. That's the intended behavior. But what happens if the directory named in $some_directory doesn't exist? In that case, the cd command will fail and the script executes the rm command on the current working directory. Not the intended behavior! By the way, my hapless system administrator's script suffered this very failure and it destroyed a large portion of an important production system. Don't let this happen to you! The problem with the script was that it did not check the exit status of the cd command before proceeding with the rm command. Checking the exit status There are several ways you can get and respond to the exit status of a program. First, you can ex
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exit codes, exit codes are important and this article describes how to use them in your scripts and understand them in general. Written by Benjamin Cane on 2014-09-02 14:45:00| 4 min read http://bencane.com/2014/09/02/understanding-exit-codes-and-how-to-use-them-in-bash-scripts/ Sponsored by Lately I've been working on a lot of automation and monitoring projects, a http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6810279/how-to-output-return-code-in-shell big part of these projects are taking existing scripts and modifying them to be useful for automation and monitoring tools. One thing I have noticed is sometimes scripts use exit codes and sometimes they don't. It seems like exit codes are easy for poeple to forget, but they are an incredibly important part of any script. Especially if that error code script is used for the command line. What are exit codes? On Unix and Linux systems, programs can pass a value to their parent process while terminating. This value is referred to as an exit code or exit status. On POSIX systems the standard convention is for the program to pass 0 for successful executions and 1 or higher for failed executions. Why is this important? If you look at exit codes in check error code the context of scripts written to be used for the command line the answer is very simple. Any script that is useful in some fashion will inevitably be either used in another script, or wrapped with a bash one liner. This becomes especially true if the script is used with automation tools like SaltStack or monitoring tools like Nagios, these programs will execute scripts and check the status code to determine whether that script was successful or not. On top of those reasons, exit codes exist within your scripts even if you don't define them. By not defining proper exit codes you could be falsely reporting successful executions which can cause issues depending on what the script does. What happens if I don't specify an exit code In Linux any script run from the command line has an exit code. With Bash scripts, if the exit code is not specified in the script itself the exit code used will be the exit code of the last command run. To help explain exit codes a little better we are going to use a quick sample script. Sample Script: #!/bin/bash touch /root/test echo created file The above sample script will execute both the touch command and the echo command. When we execute this script (as a non-root user) the touch co
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