"fmt" exit status

[Murray S. Kucherawy]

Hi all,

What does an exit status of 2 mean when I run "fmt" without "-check"?  No path is being provided as an argument.  The documentation is not clear about this; "-check" is the only place where discussion of the exit status is present, but I'm not using it.

Thanks,

-MSK

[Lucas Possamai]

On Sat, 1 May 2021 at 02:23, Murray S. Kucherawy <supe...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi all,

What does an exit status of 2 mean when I run "fmt" without "-check"?  No path is being provided as an argument.  The documentation is not clear about this; "-check" is the only place where discussion of the exit status is present, but I'm not using it.

It means that Terraform failed to format your files (it needs arguments, from memory). You can run terraform fmt -diff to check the syntax and then terraform fmt -check to validate it. If the last command returns nothing, it means FMT was successful.

Lucas

[Murray S. Kucherawy]

I'm running it with "-diff -write=false", and it exits 2 with no output.  It doesn't tell me why it failed to format; it's completely silent.

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[Richard Jennings]

The code is quite readable:

https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform/blob/cebbc8b246fd143fe161f01d2a96dac506224dbe/internal/command/fmt.go#L39

Looks like it returns exit codes 0,1,2 and 3

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