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📖 NAME

openssl-errstr - lookup error codes

🚀 Quick Reference

Use Case	Command	Description
🔍 Decode a single error code	openssl errstr <error_code>	Display the meaning of a hexadecimal error code
🔍 Decode multiple error codes	openssl errstr <code1> <code2> ...	Look up several error codes at once
❓ Display help	openssl errstr -help	Show the usage message

📋 SYNOPSIS

openssl errstr [-help] error_code...

📝 DESCRIPTION

Sometimes an application will not load error message texts and only numerical forms will be available. This command can be used to display the meaning of the hex code. The hex code is the hex digits after the second colon.

⚙️ OPTIONS

• -help 📖 Display a usage message.

💡 EXAMPLES

The error code:

27594:error:2006D080:lib(32)::reason(128)::107:

can be displayed with:

openssl errstr 2006D080

to produce the error message:

error:2006D080:BIO routines::no such file

©️ COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2004-2020 The OpenSSL Project Authors. All Rights Reserved.

Licensed under the Apache License 2.0 (the "License"). You may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You can obtain a copy in the file LICENSE in the source distribution or at <https://www.openssl.org/source/license.html>.

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