General Command Line Topics

Exit Codes

When a command is executed from the command line, then an exit code is return. The exit code, also called exit status or exit status code, is a positive integer that tells you whether the command executed with or without errors.

Exit Code	Meaning
0	Success — the command completed without errors.
> 0	Executed with errors

Exit codes greater than zero mean are specific to the Operating System, Shell, and/or command.

To access the exit code, execute the command, then do the following depending:

PowershellBashCommand Prompt

> echo $LASTEXITCODE

For Click specific behavior on exit codes, see Exception Handling and Exit Codes.