Command to return value in Windows batch file?

Question

How can I return a value in a Windows batch file? I can do it in Unix using exit 1 but how can I do it in Windows?

Answer 1

In a windows batch file to return a value back to the command shell use

exit /b yourexitcode

e.g

exit /b 3

will retun 3 in %ERRORLEVEL%

Answer 2

In Windows:

exit /b 1