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29.4; eshell ls exit code

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: David Wen Riccardi-Zhu <dwrz <at> dwrz.net>, Jim Porter <jporterbugs <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 75182 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#75182: 29.4; eshell ls exit code
Date: Sun, 05 Jan 2025 17:20:03 +0200

> From: David Wen Riccardi-Zhu <dwrz <at> dwrz.net>
> Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2024 14:33:27 +0000
> 
> 
> Is it possible to have Emacs eshell/ls return a non-zero exit code for
> errors? On my system, calling ls .... returns an error code of 2. If I
> try the same command in eshell, I get similar error text ('No such file
> or directory'), but the exit code is still 0.
> 
> I have not checked all built ins, but it appears some of them do support
> non-zero exit codes. For example cd /does-not-exist yields an exit code
> of 1 on both my system and in eshell.

Jim, can you please look into this?

Thanks.

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