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There is some introduction about the "errorlevels":
It just seemed that "errorlevel" can only be used with "if". Finally,if you want to use script on windows, "cygwin" is the suggestion. > From: thijs@thijsschreijer.nl > To: lua-l@lists.lua.org > Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2013 10:23:42 +0000 > Subject: commandline return codes > > I'm having trouble getting the following to work (reduced example, fixed bad line wrap). > > > "script1.lua" > print("Final result from os.execute():", os.execute("start.bat")) > > "start.bat" > @ECHO OFF > echo Started batchfile > lua.exe script2.lua > echo Batch received %ERROR_LEVEL% as exitcode > exit /B %ERROR_LEVEL% > > "script2.lua" > local exitcode = "25" > print("========================") > print(" Script 2 calling") > print(" exiting with",exitcode) > print("========================") > os.exit(exitcode) > > > What I'm trying to do is catching a return code. Script1 calls the batchfile, which calls script2. The batch file has to be in between to do some OS magic. > > This is the output; > C:\Users\Thijs\Dropbox\LUAPRO~1\busted\test\src>script1.lua > Started batchfile > ======================== > Script 2 calling > exiting with 25 > ======================== > Batch received as exitcode <=== > Final result from os.execute(): 0 > > C:\Users\Thijs\Dropbox\LUAPRO~1\busted\test\src> > > So the exitcode to the os.exit() call in script2 does not get passed on to the %ERROR_LEVEL% environment variable(marked with <===). I'm running this on Windows7, using Lua for Windows. > > Any ideas? > > Thijs > > |