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Doing a little Bash scripting:
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[Reading on exit codes](http://www.rdio.com/artist/Carolina_Chocolate_Drops/album/Dona_Got_a_Ramblin%27_mind/).
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[And](http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/exitcodes.html#EXITCODESREF):
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> There has been an attempt to systematize exit status numbers (see
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> /usr/include/sysexits.h), but this is intended for C and C++ programmers. A
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> similar standard for scripting might be appropriate. The author of this
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> document proposes restricting user-defined exit codes to the range 64 - 113
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> (in addition to 0, for success), to conform with the C/C++ standard. This
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> would allot 50 valid codes, and make troubleshooting scripts more
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> straightforward. [2] All user-defined exit codes in the accompanying examples
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> to this document conform to this standard, except where overriding
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> circumstances exist, as in Example 9-2.
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For the moment, a reasonable pattern to follow seems like:
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1. If it's just some general error, `exit 1`
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2. If I want to specify meaningful codes, use something 64-113.
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* [Debian New Maintainers' Guide](https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/)
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