Linux command error codes

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# @see /usr/include/asm-generic/errno-base.h

#ifndef _ASM_GENERIC_ERRNO_BASE_H

#define _ASM_GENERIC_ERRNO_BASE_H

#define EPERM 1 /* Operation not permitted */

#define ENOENT 2 /* No such file or directory */

#define ESRCH 3 /* No such process */

#define EINTR 4 /* Interrupted system call */

#define EIO 5 /* I/O error */

#define ENXIO 6 /* No such device or address */

#define E2BIG 7 /* Argument list too long */

#define ENOEXEC 8 /* Exec format error */

#define EBADF 9 /* Bad file number */

#define ECHILD 10 /* No child processes */

#define EAGAIN 11 /* Try again */

#define ENOMEM 12 /* Out of memory */

#define EACCES 13 /* Permission denied */

#define EFAULT 14 /* Bad address */

#define ENOTBLK 15 /* Block device required */

#define EBUSY 16 /* Device or resource busy */

#define EEXIST 17 /* File exists */

#define EXDEV 18 /* Cross-device link */

#define ENODEV 19 /* No such device */

#define ENOTDIR 20 /* Not a directory */

#define EISDIR 21 /* Is a directory */

#define EINVAL 22 /* Invalid argument */

#define ENFILE 23 /* File table overflow */

#define EMFILE 24 /* Too many open files */

#define ENOTTY 25 /* Not a typewriter */

#define ETXTBSY 26 /* Text file busy */

#define EFBIG 27 /* File too large */

#define ENOSPC 28 /* No space left on device */

#define ESPIPE 29 /* Illegal seek */

#define EROFS 30 /* Read-only file system */

#define EMLINK 31 /* Too many links */

#define EPIPE 32 /* Broken pipe */

#define EDOM 33 /* Math argument out of domain of func */

#define ERANGE 34 /* Math result not representable */

#endif

# @see /usr/include/asm-generic/errno.h

#ifndef _ASM_GENERIC_ERRNO_H

#define _ASM_GENERIC_ERRNO_H

#include

#define EDEADLK 35 /* Resource deadlock would occur */

#define ENAMETOOLONG 36 /* File name too long */

#define ENOLCK 37 /* No record locks available */

#define ENOSYS 38 /* Function not implemented */

#define ENOTEMPTY 39 /* Directory not empty */

#define ELOOP 40 /* Too many symbolic links encountered */

#define EWOULDBLOCK EAGAIN /* Operation would block */

#define ENOMSG 42 /* No message of desired type */

#define EIDRM 43 /* Identifier removed */

#define ECHRNG 44 /* Channel number out of range */

#define EL2NSYNC 45 /* Level 2 not synchronized */

#define EL3HLT 46 /* Level 3 halted */

#define EL3RST 47 /* Level 3 reset */

#define ELNRNG 48 /* Link number out of range */

#define EUNATCH 49 /* Protocol driver not attached */

#define ENOCSI 50 /* No CSI structure available */

#define EL2HLT 51 /* Level 2 halted */

#define EBADE 52 /* Invalid exchange */

#define EBADR 53 /* Invalid request descriptor */

#define EXFULL 54 /* Exchange full */

#define ENOANO 55 /* No anode */

#define EBADRQC 56 /* Invalid request code */

#define EBADSLT 57 /* Invalid slot */

#define EDEADLOCK EDEADLK

#define EBFONT 59 /* Bad font file format */

#define ENOSTR 60 /* Device not a stream */

#define ENODATA 61 /* No data available */

#define ETIME 62 /* Timer expired */

#define ENOSR 63 /* Out of streams resources */

#define ENONET 64 /* Machine is not on the network */

#define ENOPKG 65 /* Package not installed */

#define EREMOTE 66 /* Object is remote */

#define ENOLINK 67 /* Link has been severed */

#define EADV 68 /* Advertise error */

#define ESRMNT 69 /* Srmount error */

#define ECOMM 70 /* Communication error on send */

#define EPROTO 71 /* Protocol error */

#define EMULTIHOP 72 /* Multihop attempted */

#define EDOTDOT 73 /* RFS specific error */

#define EBADMSG 74 /* Not a data message */

#define EOVERFLOW 75 /* Value too large for defined data type */

#define ENOTUNIQ 76 /* Name not unique on network */

#define EBADFD 77 /* File descriptor in bad state */

#define EREMCHG 78 /* Remote address changed */

#define ELIBACC 79 /* Can not access a needed shared library */

#define ELIBBAD 80 /* Accessing a corrupted shared library */

#define ELIBSCN 81 /* .lib section in a.out corrupted */

#define ELIBMAX 82 /* Attempting to link in too many shared libraries */

#define ELIBEXEC 83 /* Cannot exec a shared library directly */

#define EILSEQ 84 /* Illegal byte sequence */

#define ERESTART 85 /* Interrupted system call should be restarted */

#define ESTRPIPE 86 /* Streams pipe error */

#define EUSERS 87 /* Too many users */

#define ENOTSOCK 88 /* Socket operation on non-socket */

#define EDESTADDRREQ 89 /* Destination address required */

#define EMSGSIZE 90 /* Message too long */

#define EPROTOTYPE 91 /* Protocol wrong type for socket */

#define ENOPROTOOPT 92 /* Protocol not available */

#define EPROTONOSUPPORT 93 /* Protocol not supported */

#define ESOCKTNOSUPPORT 94 /* Socket type not supported */

#define EOPNOTSUPP 95 /* Operation not supported on transport endpoint */

#define EPFNOSUPPORT 96 /* Protocol family not supported */

#define EAFNOSUPPORT 97 /* Address family not supported by protocol */

#define EADDRINUSE 98 /* Address already in use */

#define EADDRNOTAVAIL 99 /* Cannot assign requested address */

#define ENETDOWN 100 /* Network is down */

#define ENETUNREACH 101 /* Network is unreachable */

#define ENETRESET 102 /* Network dropped connection because of reset */

#define ECONNABORTED 103 /* Software caused connection abort */

#define ECONNRESET 104 /* Connection reset by peer */

#define ENOBUFS 105 /* No buffer space available */

#define EISCONN 106 /* Transport endpoint is already connected */

#define ENOTCONN 107 /* Transport endpoint is not connected */

#define ESHUTDOWN 108 /* Cannot send after transport endpoint shutdown */

#define ETOOMANYREFS 109 /* Too many references: cannot splice */

#define ETIMEDOUT 110 /* Connection timed out */

#define ECONNREFUSED 111 /* Connection refused */

#define EHOSTDOWN 112 /* Host is down */

#define EHOSTUNREACH 113 /* No route to host */

#define EALREADY 114 /* Operation already in progress */

#define EINPROGRESS 115 /* Operation now in progress */

#define ESTALE 116 /* Stale NFS file handle */

#define EUCLEAN 117 /* Structure needs cleaning */

#define ENOTNAM 118 /* Not a XENIX named type file */

#define ENAVAIL 119 /* No XENIX semaphores available */

#define EISNAM 120 /* Is a named type file */

#define EREMOTEIO 121 /* Remote I/O error */

#define EDQUOT 122 /* Quota exceeded */

#define ENOMEDIUM 123 /* No medium found */

#define EMEDIUMTYPE 124 /* Wrong medium type */

#define ECANCELED 125 /* Operation Canceled */

#define ENOKEY 126 /* Required key not available */

#define EKEYEXPIRED 127 /* Key has expired */

#define EKEYREVOKED 128 /* Key has been revoked */

#define EKEYREJECTED 129 /* Key was rejected by service */

/* for robust mutexes */

#define EOWNERDEAD 130 /* Owner died */

#define ENOTRECOVERABLE 131 /* State not recoverable */

#define ERFKILL 132 /* Operation not possible due to RF-kill */

#endif

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How to use Linux shell command exit codes

You can use the numeric codes returned by shell scripts or Ansible playbooks to identify problems and test the code.

When you execute a command in Linux, it generates a numeric return code. This happens whether you’re running the command directly from the shell, from a script, or even from an Ansible playbook. You can use those return codes to handle the result of that command properly.

What the return codes mean

When running commands at a shell prompt, the special variable $? contains a number that indicates the result of the last command executed.

A zero ( 0 ) means everything went fine. Anything else means there is a problem.

A value of 1 generically indicates that some error has happened.

$ who admin2 :1 2022-03-15 10:14 (:1) $ echo $? 0 $ who | grep thisstringdoesnotexist $ echo $? 1

In the example above, I executed the who command, which showed that I am admin2.

Immediately after that, I executed echo $? , and it returned zero because the previous command was executed successfully.

Then I executed the same who command (which I know is working fine) and piped that to grep with the non-existing argument. This time the $? variable contains a 1 .

Why? It’s because the last command executed was grep , which returns 1 when it cannot find the argument in its input.

$ls myfile.cfg ls: cannot access 'myfile.cfg': No such file or directory $echo $? 2

Here I tried to list a file that doesn’t exist. Then when I entered echo $? I got 2 , which is how the ls command indicates that the argument is not a file or directory name.

Customize the return code

You can also use the exit command from a shell script to customize the return code to the caller script.

The following script illustrates this:

#!/bin/bash if [ ! -f myfile.cfg ]; then echo The file does not exist and we display an error exit 64 fi echo The file exists and we will do something echo "(Not really doing anything, but this is where we could do it)" exit 0

$./myscrypt.sh The file does not exist and we display an error $echo $? 64 $touch myfile.cfg $./myscrypt.sh The file exists and we will do something (Not really doing anything, but this is where we could do it) $echo $? 0

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In this script, I explicitly provide the exit code for the failed and for the successful cases. Some observations:

1. If I do not explicitly use exit 0 , the return code from myscript.sh will be the return code from the last command executed inside it. This could be what I want, but here I wanted to state the return code pretty clearly inside the script.
2. I used 64 as an arbitrary return code for the error condition. The Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide offers some guidelines about exit code values.

Test the return code with a shell script

If you need to test the return code of a command you invoked on your shell script, you just need to test the $? variable immediately after the command executes.

#!/bin/bash # A snipet from a shell script . # Next we will invoke a command or another shell script ./myscript.sh RETURN=$? if [ $RETURN -eq 0 ]; then echo "The script myscript.sh was executed successfuly" exit 0 else echo "The script myscript.sh was NOT executed successfuly and returned the code $RETURN" exit $RETURN fi 

In this example, after invoking my command or script, I saved the exit code from $? on a variable for further utilization. (Again, $? returns the status of the last command, so you need to be careful if you run more commands—even a simple echo .).

Test the return code with an Ansible playbook

It is recommended to avoid running shell commands from an Ansible playbook if there is an Ansible module that performs the same action. This is especially because with a module you have better odds of being idempotent.

[ Ready to start automating? Check out this Ansible quick start series. ]

To illustrate how to handle return codes from a shell command, check this simple playbook:

--- - name: Executes a shell script hosts: localhost gather_facts: no tasks: - name: Execute the shell script shell: ./myscript.sh ignore_errors: true register: result - name: Shows the result of executing the script debug: msg: - "Return code. >" - ">"

This is the Ansible playbook executed when a script returns an error:

[WARNING]: provided hosts list is empty, only localhost is available. Note that the implicit localhost does not match 'all' PLAY [Executes a shell script] ***************************************************************************************** TASK [Execute the shell script] **************************************************************************************** fatal: [localhost]: FAILED! => . ignoring TASK [Shows the result of executing the script] ************************************************************************ ok: [localhost] => < "msg": [ "Return code. 64", [ "The file does not exist and we display an error" ] ] >PLAY RECAP ************************************************************************************************************* localhost : ok=2 changed=1 unreachable=0 failed=0 skipped=0 rescued=0 ignored=1 

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