Java - return status code from main()

In this short article, we would like to show how to return the status code from the main function in Java.

Quick solution:

// put at the end of the main()

System.exit(statusCode);

// e.g.
System.exit(2);

Practical example

Program.java file:

package example;

public class Program {

    public static void main(String[] args) {

        System.exit(2); // 0 usually means the program ended successfully
                        //   other numbers describe error code
                        // e.g. 
                        //   here we returned error with code 2
    }
}

Example output:

Process finished with exit code 2

Hint: in Bash, we can use exit status from program / command and do some decisions,

e.g.

command

if [ $? = 2 ];
then
    echo "error detected";
fi

Above code is equivalent to the following c++ / cpp code version:

using namespace std;

int main()
{
    return 2; // 0 usually means the program ended successfully
              //   other numbers describe error code
              // e.g. 
              //   here we returned error with code 2
}