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| Chapter 4 The Bourne Shell and Korn Shell |

## exit

    exit [n]

Exit a shell script with status `n` (e.g., exit 1). `n` can be 0 (success) or nonzero (failure). If `n` is not given, exit status will be that of the most recent command. exit can be issued at the command line to close a window (log out).

>     if [ $# -eq 0 ]; then
>        echo "Usage:  $0 [-c] [-d] file(s)"
>        exit 1	# Error status
>     fi

Reference: exec |  | Reference: export