On Mon, 03 Jan 2011 21:20:42 +0300 Anonymous <swell.k at gmail.com> wrote: > > Do you mean perror(1)? > > $ perror 5 > Input/output error I prefer mine: $ errno () { grep "^#.*\\<$*\\>" /usr/include/sys/errno.h } $ errno 5 #define EIO 5 /* Input/output error */ $ errno EIO #define EIO 5 /* Input/output error */