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From: Eli Schwartz <eschwartz@archlinux.org>
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Subject: Re: How to tell Bash multiple values are success?
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2019 11:14:37 -0400
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From: Eli Schwartz <eschwartz@archlinux.org>
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Subject: Re: How to tell Bash multiple values are success?
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On 6/19/19 11:01 AM, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>=20
> I have a systemd service that automatically applies updates. Looking
> at the service history, the service reports failure when it installs
> updates due to this:
>=20
>     if dnf -y update &>/dev/null
>     then
>         echo "Upgraded system"
>     else
>         echo "Failed to upgrade system"
>         exit 1
>     fi
>=20
> The problems seems to be 0, 100 and 200 are success. When updates are
> installed either 100 or 200 is returned. Confer,
> https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html .
>=20
> I looked through Bash Variables, but I did not see a way to signal the
> information to Bash. Confer,
> https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Bash-Variables.html
> .
>=20
> How do I tell Bash 0, 100 and 200 are success? (Or, how to tell Bash 1
> is the only failure?)

Neither 100 nor 200 are successes, and the page you linked explains
exactly why.

The former is only relevant to the subcommand "dnf check-update" and
indicates that your system is *not* fully upgraded and you should fix tha=
t.

The latter indicates that you successfully updated the system, but
potentially bad things occurred in the process. You can choose to
*ignore* selected errors, however, using Greg's suggestion.

There is no option to make bash dramatically redefine its entire
internal understanding of how basic unix return codes work.

--=20
Eli Schwartz


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