On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 01:20:50PM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: > seems there's a way to get bash to report exit values greater than 255 ...
you will find the special error values in shell.h, for instance #define EX_SHERRBASE 256 /* all special error values are > this. */ #define EX_BADSYNTAX 257 /* shell syntax error */ #define EX_USAGE 258 /* syntax error in usage */ #define EX_REDIRFAIL 259 /* redirection failed */ #define EX_BADASSIGN 260 /* variable assignment error */ #define EX_EXPFAIL 261 /* word expansion failed */ > $ echo '<enter> > <ctrl+c> > $ echo $? > 386 but you haven't mentioned your version. (I don't see that with bash-3.2.48/4.0.0 on linux 2.6.23/libc2.3.6)