[ILUG] [TOTD] find error corresponding to number

[kevin lyda]

On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 05:34:05PM +0100, P at draigBrady.com wrote:
> Many times I've wasted a couple of minutes
> looking for the error corresponding to an
> errno returned from a program. So instead
> I spent 5 mins writing this shell script.
> 
> http://www.pixelbeat.org/scripts/strerror

shell.  feh.   :)

http://ie.suberic.net/~kevin/strerror.pl

> Example usage:
> 
> #show all errnos
> strerror

strerror.pl
 
> #find error 101
> strerror 101

strerror.pl 101
 
> #find all NET related errors
> strerror | grep NET

strerror.pl net

all in a 162 byte perl script with two ?: ops and a map call.

kevin, who wrote it by shaking his keys next to a modem...

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