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Hello, Would it by any chance be possible to have XRootD command-line tools (or at least some of them, 'xrd stat' for instance) provide a non-zero return code if the queried file or directory does not exist? While not an error per se, such an occurrence does in a way indicate that operations on the file or directory in question will not succeed - and I think it would both streamline the use of XRootD tools in scripts a bit and provide an easier upgrade path for any software managers of CERN experiments who now have to switch from RFIO to XRootD for CASTOR access (CASTOR/RFIO command-line tools do provide this information). At the moment this doesn't seem to work: [show software version] lxplus$ xrd (C) 2004-2010 by the Xrootd group. Xrootd version: v3.2.7 Welcome to the xrootd command line interface. Type 'help' for a list of available commands. > exit Goodbye. [query existing directories: CASTOR, EOS] lxplus$ xrd castorpublic stat /castor/cern.ch/user/m/mks Id: 137983241792572159 Size: 0 Flags: 19 Modtime: 1333106123 lxplus$ echo $? 0 lxplus$ xrd eospublic stat /eos/na61/user/m/mks Id: 14499809643263 Size: 0 Flags: 2 Modtime: 1377092760 lxplus$ echo $? 0 [query nonexistent files/directories: CASTOR, EOS] lxplus$ xrd castorpublic stat /castor/cern.ch/user/m/mks/nothere Error 3011: Unable to stat /castor/cern.ch/user/m/mks/nothere; No such file or directory The command returned an error. lxplus$ echo $? 0 lxplus$ xrd eospublic stat /eos/na61/user/m/mks/nothere Error 3011: Unable to stat /eos/na61/user/m/mks/nothere; No such file or directory The command returned an error. lxplus$ echo $? 0 Cheers, -- MS ######################################################################## Use REPLY-ALL to reply to list To unsubscribe from the XROOTD-L list, click the following link: https://listserv.slac.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=XROOTD-L&A=1