I am running a program and want to see what its return code is (since it returns different codes based on different errors).
I know in Bash I can do this by running
echo $?
What do I do when using cmd.exe on Windows?
A pseudo environment variable named errorlevel
stores the exit code:
echo Exit Code is %errorlevel%
Also, the if
command has a special syntax:
if errorlevel
See if /?
for details.
@echo off
my_nify_exe.exe
if errorlevel 1 (
echo Failure Reason Given is %errorlevel%
exit /b %errorlevel%
)
Warning: If you set an environment variable name errorlevel
, %errorlevel%
will return that value and not the exit code. Use (set errorlevel=
) to clear the environment variable, allowing access to the true value of errorlevel
via the %errorlevel%
environment variable.