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| author | Adam Spragg <adam@spra.gg> | 2022-05-23 15:29:11 +0100 |
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| committer | Adam Spragg <adam@spra.gg> | 2022-05-24 10:12:33 +0100 |
| commit | a0902fe51010645f779e4d02cd46f35e488b8bd2 (patch) | |
| tree | c741aea22bae668fee418b8ac0938bdbc96675c6 /metastore.txt | |
| parent | 7c0520451b071e77b4c432ed89fc7559b8c58138 (diff) | |
Return non-zero exit status if "compare" finds differences
This makes `metastore` more useful in scripts, just to check if it found
anything, in the same way as `diff` and `grep`.
Note that POSIX requires that EXIT_SUCCESS is 0, and EXIT_FAILURE is 1,
so I've defined EXIT_DIFFERENCES as 2 which, while different from the
values `diff` and `grep` use (1 for finding something, 2 for errors),
maintains a certain amount of backwards compatibility with previous
versions of metastore.
Diffstat (limited to 'metastore.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | metastore.txt | 5 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/metastore.txt b/metastore.txt index 351ccc4..691fea5 100644 --- a/metastore.txt +++ b/metastore.txt @@ -87,6 +87,11 @@ PATHS will each be examined. Later invocations should be made using the exact same paths to ensure that the stored metadata is interpreted correctly. +EXIT STATUS + metastore returns an exit status of 0 on success, or 1 if an error oc‐ + curred. If the compare action is selected and differences are found, + the exit status is 2. + FORMATS 0 The original and default format, it is a compact binary repre‐ sentation of the file metadata stored. |