Return an exit code without closing shell

Question

I\'d like to return an exit code from a BASH script that is called within another script, but could also be called directly. It roughly looks like this:

#!/b         


        

Answer 1

Another option is to use a function and put the return values in that and then simply either source the script (source processStatus.sh) or call the script (./processStatus.sh) . For example consider the processStatus.sh script that needs to return a value to the stopProcess.sh script but also needs to be called separately from say the command line without using source (only relevant parts included) Eg:

check_process ()
{
  if [ $1 -eq "50" ]
  then
    return 1       
  else
    return 0
  fi       
}

and

source processStatus.sh $1
RET_VALUE=$?
if [ $RET_VALUE -ne "0" ]
then
  exit 0
fi