在 Linux 下，不管你是启动一个桌面程序也好，还是在控制台下运行命令，所有的程序在结束时，都会返回一个数字值，这个值叫做返回值，或者称为错误号 ( Error Number )。
在控制台下，有一个特殊的环境变量 $?，保存着前一个程序的返回值，我们可以试试：
$ ls *.png Diagram1.png eqn.png peazip.png eqn4.png Mandelbrot.png x2.png $ echo $? 0
先随便执行个命令，比如像上面的 ls 某些文件，然后通过 echo $?，打印 $? 的值～
我们发现返回值是 0，这是什么意思呢？
只要返回值是 0，就代表程序执行成功了～
也就是说，如果 $? 变量的值不是 0 的话，就表示上一个命令在执行的过程中出错了。我们可以试着 ls 一个不存在的文件：
$ ls linuxgem ls: 无法访问 linuxgem: 没有那个文件或目录 $ echo $? 2
这样，对于某些打印出一堆不熟悉的英文信息的命令，可以方便的看出它是否成功执行结束。
不过，每次都 echo $? 一下太累了，没关系，你可以把 $? 放在提示符里去：
$ export PS1="[\$?]${PS1}" [0]test@test:$
export PS1="[\$?]${PS1}" 这个命令把 $? 的值放在的提示符的最前面，这样每次执行完命令，这个值都会自动更新，这下就一目了然了～
那么如果返回的值不是 0，我们要怎么知道是那里出错了呢？ 大多数的程序出错都会给出提示，如果没有提示的话，可以用 perror 这个程序来查看错误的信息，比如返回值是 2，我们可以运行：
$ perror 2 OS error code 2: No such file or directory
这样就清楚了，原来是文件不存在～
错误对照表：
"OS error code 1: Operation not permitted" "OS error code 2: No such file or directory" "OS error code 3: No such process" "OS error code 4: Interrupted system call" "OS error code 5: Input/output error" "OS error code 6: No such device or address" "OS error code 7: Argument list too long" "OS error code 8: Exec format error" "OS error code 9: Bad file descriptor" "OS error code 10: No child processes" "OS error code 11: Resource temporarily unavailable" "OS error code 12: Cannot allocate memory" "OS error code 13: Permission denied" "OS error code 14: Bad address" "OS error code 15: Block device required" "OS error code 16: Device or resource busy" "OS error code 17: File exists" "OS error code 18: Invalid cross-device link" "OS error code 19: No such device" "OS error code 20: Not a directory" "OS error code 21: Is a directory" "OS error code 22: Invalid argument" "OS error code 23: Too many open files in system" "OS error code 24: Too many open files" "OS error code 25: Inappropriate ioctl for device" "OS error code 26: Text file busy" "OS error code 27: File too large" "OS error code 28: No space left on device" "OS error code 29: Illegal seek" "OS error code 30: Read-only file system" "OS error code 31: Too many links" "OS error code 32: Broken pipe" "OS error code 33: Numerical argument out of domain" "OS error code 34: Numerical result out of range" "OS error code 35: Resource deadlock avoided" "OS error code 36: File name too long" "OS error code 37: No locks available" "OS error code 38: Function not implemented" "OS error code 39: Directory not empty" "OS error code 40: Too many levels of symbolic links" "OS error code 42: No message of desired type" "OS error code 43: Identifier removed" "OS error code 44: Channel number out of range" "OS error code 45: Level 2 not synchronized" "OS error code 46: Level 3 halted" "OS error code 47: Level 3 reset" "OS error code 48: Link number out of range" "OS error code 49: Protocol driver not attached" "OS error code 50: No CSI structure available" "OS error code 51: Level 2 halted" "OS error code 52: Invalid exchange" "OS error code 53: Invalid request descriptor" "OS error code 54: Exchange full" "OS error code 55: No anode" "OS error code 56: Invalid request code" "OS error code 57: Invalid slot" "OS error code 59: Bad font file format" "OS error code 60: Device not a stream" "OS error code 61: No data available" "OS error code 62: Timer expired" "OS error code 63: Out of streams resources" "OS error code 64: Machine is not on the network" "OS error code 65: Package not installed" "OS error code 66: Object is remote" "OS error code 67: Link has been severed" "OS error code 68: Advertise error" "OS error code 69: Srmount error" "OS error code 70: Communication error on send" "OS error code 71: Protocol error" "OS error code 72: Multihop attempted" "OS error code 73: RFS specific error" "OS error code 74: Bad message" "OS error code 75: Value too large for defined data type" "OS error code 76: Name not unique on network" "OS error code 77: File descriptor in bad state" "OS error code 78: Remote address changed" "OS error code 79: Can not access a needed shared library" "OS error code 80: Accessing a corrupted shared library" "OS error code 81: .lib section in a.out corrupted" "OS error code 82: Attempting to link in too many shared libraries" "OS error code 83: Cannot exec a shared library directly" "OS error code 84: Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character" "OS error code 85: Interrupted system call should be restarted" "OS error code 86: Streams pipe error" "OS error code 87: Too many users" "OS error code 88: Socket operation on non-socket" "OS error code 89: Destination address required" "OS error code 90: Message too long" "OS error code 91: Protocol wrong type for socket" "OS error code 92: Protocol not available" "OS error code 93: Protocol not supported" "OS error code 94: Socket type not supported" "OS error code 95: Operation not supported" "OS error code 96: Protocol family not supported" "OS error code 97: Address family not supported by protocol" "OS error code 98: Address already in use" "OS error code 99: Cannot assign requested address" "OS error code 100: Network is down" "OS error code 101: Network is unreachable" "OS error code 102: Network dropped connection on reset" "OS error code 103: Software caused connection abort" "OS error code 104: Connection reset by peer" "OS error code 105: No buffer space available" "OS error code 106: Transport endpoint is already connected" "OS error code 107: Transport endpoint is not connected" "OS error code 108: Cannot send after transport endpoint shutdown" "OS error code 109: Too many references: cannot splice" "OS error code 110: Connection timed out" "OS error code 111: Connection refused" "OS error code 112: Host is down" "OS error code 113: No route to host" "OS error code 114: Operation already in progress" "OS error code 115: Operation now in progress" "OS error code 116: Stale NFS file handle" "OS error code 117: Structure needs cleaning" "OS error code 118: Not a XENIX named type file" "OS error code 119: No XENIX semaphores available" "OS error code 120: Is a named type file" "OS error code 121: Remote I/O error" "OS error code 122: Disk quota exceeded" "OS error code 123: No medium found" "OS error code 124: Wrong medium type" "OS error code 125: Operation canceled" "OS error code 126: Required key not available" "OS error code 127: Key has expired" "OS error code 128: Key has been revoked" "OS error code 129: Key was rejected by service" "OS error code 130: Owner died" "OS error code 131: State not recoverable" "MySQL error code 132: Old database file" "MySQL error code 133: No record read before update" "MySQL error code 134: Record was already deleted (or record file crashed)" "MySQL error code 135: No more room in record file" "MySQL error code 136: No more room in index file" "MySQL error code 137: No more records (read after end of file)" "MySQL error code 138: Unsupported extension used for table" "MySQL error code 139: Too big row" "MySQL error code 140: Wrong create options" "MySQL error code 141: Duplicate unique key or constraint on write or update" "MySQL error code 142: Unknown character set used" "MySQL error code 143: Conflicting table definitions in sub-tables of MERGE table" "MySQL error code 144: Table is crashed and last repair failed" "MySQL error code 145: Table was marked as crashed and should be repaired" "MySQL error code 146: Lock timed out; Retry transaction" "MySQL error code 147: Lock table is full; Restart program with a larger locktable" "MySQL error code 148: Updates are not allowed under a read only transactions" "MySQL error code 149: Lock deadlock; Retry transaction" "MySQL error code 150: Foreign key constraint is incorrectly formed" "MySQL error code 151: Cannot add a child row" "MySQL error code 152: Cannot delete a parent row"