Wrong status value from bash script

Question

My bash script runs `curl` command internally. I want to return the HTTP response code as the status of my script. I'm doing this like here: ``` statusCode=404 if [ $statusCode -ne 200 ] then echo $statusCode exit $statusCode fi exit 0 ``` Status code is echoed properly (`404`), but status value (`$?`) is `148`. What am I doing wrong?

Accepted Answer

This is not possible to exit with HTTP response code from bash script, because bash script can only exit with values `0-255`. Value `404` overflowed and turned into `148`:

```
404 mod 256=148
```

Wrong status value from bash script

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