diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/rg.1.txt.tpl')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/rg.1.txt.tpl | 10 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/rg.1.txt.tpl b/doc/rg.1.txt.tpl index c9a08f97..a6f72260 100644 --- a/doc/rg.1.txt.tpl +++ b/doc/rg.1.txt.tpl @@ -90,7 +90,15 @@ EXIT STATUS ----------- If ripgrep finds a match, then the exit status of the program is 0. If no match could be found, then the exit status is 1. If an error occurred, then the exit -status is 2. +status is always 2 unless ripgrep was run with the *--quiet* flag and a match +was found. In summary: + +* `0` exit status occurs only when at least one match was found, and if + no error occurred, unless *--quiet* was given. +* `1` exit status occurs only when no match was found and no error occurred. +* `2` exit status occurs when an error occurred. This is true for both + catastrophic errors (e.g., a regex syntax error) and for soft errors (e.g., + unable to read a file). CONFIGURATION FILES |