Dos Exit Codes Error Levels
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stdin, stdout, stderr Part 5 – If/Then Conditionals Part 6 – Loops Part 7 – Functions Part 8 – Parsing Input Part 9 – dos exit code 1 Logging Part 10 – Advanced Tricks Today we’ll cover return codes as
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the right way to communicate the outcome of your script’s execution to the world. Sadly, even skilled Windows programmers
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overlook the importance of return codes. Return Code Conventions By convention, command line execution should return zero when execution succeeds and non-zero when execution fails. Warning messages typically don’t effect the return
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code. What matters is did the script work or not? Checking Return Codes In Your Script Commands The environmental variable %ERRORLEVEL% contains the return code of the last executed program or script. A very helpful feature is the built-in DOS commands like ECHO, IF, and SET will preserve the existing value of %ERRORLEVEL%. The conventional technique to check for a non-zero return code using windows exit codes the NEQ (Not-Equal-To) operator of the IF command: IF %ERRORLEVEL% NEQ 0 ( REM do something here to address the error ) Another common technique is: IF ERRORLEVEL 1 ( REM do something here to address the error ) The ERRORLEVEL 1 statement is true when the return code is any number equal to or greater than 1. However, I don’t use this technique because programs can return negative numbers as well as positive numbers. Most programs rarely document every possible return code, so I’d rather explicity check for non-zero with the NEQ 0 style than assuming return codes will be 1 or greater on error. You may also want to check for specific error codes. For example, you can test that an executable program or script is in your PATH by simply calling the program and checking for return code 9009. SomeFile.exe IF %ERRORLEVEL% EQU 9009 ( ECHO error - SomeFile.exe not found in your PATH ) It’s hard to know this stuff upfront – I generally just use trial and error to figure out the best way to check the return code of the program or scri
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Chen - MSFTSeptember 26, 200815 0 0 0 The command interpreter cmd.exe has a concept known as the error level, which is the exit code of the program most recently run. You can test the error level with the IF ERRORLEVEL command: IF ERRORLEVEL 1 https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20080926-00/?p=20743 ECHO error level is 1 or more