EXIT(1)

✨ EXIT(1) ✨

okay so real talk, bestie — this is a fish-shell manual page, and it's literally the shortest one you'll ever read, so we're gonna get through it together 🫶

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🌸 NAME 🌸

exit — the builtin that's like "ok bye" and means it 💅

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

exit [CODE]

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So exit is a special builtin (yes, special, main character energy 👑) and what it does is cause the shell to exit. That's it. That's the whole vibe.

Here's the part you actually need to remember: the exit status it hands back is either 255 or the CODE you supplied, whichever is lesser. Not whichever you wanted, not whichever felt right — whichever is lesser. The math is doing the math 📐✨

And if you don't give it a CODE at all? Then the exit status will just be that of the last command executed. Comfy. Familiar. Invisible. Slay.

ngl there's a little plot twist here: if exit gets called while you're sourcing a file (using the source <> builtin), the rest of that file gets skipped — but the shell itself will not exit. So the file dips out early, and the shell keeps the party going 🎉 Just so you know, no surprises.

Also, quick lil reminder: the --help or -h option displays help about using this command. Iconic behaviour honestly 🙈

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💖 Copyright 💖

fish-shell developers — they made it, they get the credit, periodt 💐

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this beauty comes to you from fish-shell, version 4.9, dated Sep 08, 2026 — see you in the next manpage bestie 💜