From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: bojohan+news@dd.chalmers.se (Johan =?utf-8?Q?Bockg=C3=A5rd?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: What does code 123 mean?... (Shell command failed with code 123 and no output) Date: Sat, 07 Jun 2008 11:04:20 +0200 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1212831659 6341 80.91.229.12 (7 Jun 2008 09:40:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2008 09:40:59 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jun 07 11:41:40 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1K4uvY-0001uu-JH for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 07 Jun 2008 11:41:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52898 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K4uul-0003UH-Hd for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 07 Jun 2008 05:40:47 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newsfeed.news2me.com!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!feeder.news-service.com!goblin1!goblin.stu.neva.ru!uio.no!quimby.gnus.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 33 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: remote5.student.chalmers.se Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 1212829477 5459 129.16.29.83 (7 Jun 2008 09:04:37 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2008 09:04:37 +0000 (UTC) Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.110009 (No Gnus v0.9) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:1tJPXntdVNGL9TJpa3tgidFn3hE= Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:159216 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:54573 Archived-At: Don Saklad writes: > In this particular case it happened to be... > find -type f -print0 | xargs -0 grep -i strategylab > > > _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ > a. > What does code 123 mean?... in > > (Shell command failed with code 123 and no output) EXIT STATUS xargs exits with the following status: 0 if it succeeds 123 if any invocation of the command exited with status 1-125 124 if the command exited with status 255 125 if the command is killed by a signal 126 if the command cannot be run 127 if the command is not found 1 if some other error occurred. Exit codes greater than 128 are used by the shell to indicate that a program died due to a fatal signal. > b. > Where is there a list of codes and what the codes mean?... man xargs -- Johan Bockgård