Stata from Command Line: Return non-zero exit code if error?

[Nick Eubank]

Hi All,

Trying to run stata jobs from the command line (using cygwin, a linux-like interface). The problem I'm running into is that Stata doesn't appear to be return a non-zero exit code when problems arise.

Current Code:

stata="/cygdrive/c/Program Files (x86)/Stata12/StataMP-64.exe"
file="my_dofile.do"
"$stata" -e do $file || exit 1

But even if I (intentionally) introduce bugs in the dofile, it runs cleanly from the command-line perspective.

There a flag to get it to raise errors?

Thanks!

[Nick Eubank]

Found this, which with some tweaking works: https://gist.github.com/pschumm/b967dfc7f723507ac4be

Seems like should be supported though! Maybe in Stata 15?

[Nick Eubank]

Anyone know if this has been improved up in Stata 14 or 15?