Commands tagged errno (2)

  • Lookup errno defintions

    Calls the POSIX strerror() function to look up the meaning of integer ERRNOs set by some functions.


    1
    perl -MPOSIX -e 'print strerror($ARGV[0])."\n";' ERRNO
    sethjust · 2011-09-21 18:16:19 5
  • Use exit codes that actually means something.

    Use meaningful exit codes change "source" to "cat" to view output instead of assigning Show Sample Output


    -1
    source <(egrep '^#define EX_.*' /usr/include/sysexits.h | sed -e 's/#define/declare -r/g' | sed 's/\//#/g' | sed -e 's/\s\{1,\}/ /g' | sed -e 's/ \([0-9]\)/\=\1/'g )
    fishdaemon · 2012-09-21 13:30:37 10

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