in reply to Exit information needed

As the manual page would have told you, exit and exit 0 are the same. The difference between exit 0 and exit 1 is that the former makes that the program has an exit value of 0, and the latter an exit value of 1.

The convention is that an exit value of 0 indicates the program ran succesfully, while an exit value other than 0 means an error of some kind occurred.

Abigail