Exit CodesΒΆ

While every effort is made to provide helpful and descriptive messages when the program ends, the meanings of the possible exit codes are documented here for reference.

No. Meaning Notes
0 Success The program finished within acceptable parameters.
1 Failure The program failed or was interrupted, and no more specific exit code applies.
2 CLI Error The operator provided invalid input. See Options

Tip

In POSIX-standard shells, the exit status of a command will be set to the variable ?. To check the exit code of a program, after it has ended, you can run:

echo $?