General Command Line Topics — Click Documentation (8.3.x)

# 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:

    > echo $LASTEXITCODE

    $ echo $?

    > echo %ERRORLEVEL%

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