[OpenAFS-devel] Return value on various command

[Emmanuel Vadot]

Todd M. Lewis wrote:
> The pts command returns 0 because it successfully listed the 
> membership, which was nothing.
>
> What you want is
>
>   pts examine newuser
>
> which will return 0 if 'newuser' exists, 1 otherwise.
>
> El Barto wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm using shell script to create my user, for testing if the user 
>> exist I just do a :
>>
>> $ pts membership newuser
>>
>> The problem is that pts always set the return variable to 0.
>> To bypass that I just pipe the result to wc -l because the error is 
>> writing on fd 2, wc doesn't count this.
>>
>> Is there a reason for always returning 0 ?
>>
>> P.S. : By the way I'm using Openafs 1.4.4
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>

Of course, my bad.
Thanks.

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