How to terminate/exit from a linux script?

Question

I have some unique requirement, where I need to do something like this -
1. My script takes the argument as file name which is absolute filename.
2. I need to separate the filename and directory from this absolute file name for the further processing.

Any suggestions -

Answer 1

Try exit statement:

exit 0

Replace 0 with respective error codes.

Comments

Thanks Salil for quick answer...
its working as u suggested...