Why do people exit /b instead of goto :eof

[Ed Dyreen]

I presume its faster

[dbenham]

I have no idea about performance. I've always assumed it was a matter of personal preference.

I've always felt that exit /b looks more elegant. Goto :eof strikes me as kludgey or hackish, but I don't know of any compelling reason to use one over the other. I'm pretty sure goto :eof predates exit /b, so many people got used to using it before exit /b became available.

One advantage of exit /b is it allows you to set the errorlevel as in exit /b 23

Dave Benham

[Ed Dyreen]

advantage ? Then I will have to start using it exit /b 0

[orange_batch]

Same as dbenham said, but I don't care much for setting the errorlevel, except one trick.

First, if for some reason I need to reset the errorlevel to 0, use verify>nul. I didn't test the performance, but there's no way it's slower than cmd /c exit 0.

Second, a guy named carlos or something here posted some awesome tricks almost a year back.

You can easily convert any decimal to hexadecimal from 0 to FFFFFFFF by:
cmd /d /c exit 12345
echo Hex of 12345: %=exitcode%