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From: Bastian Bittorf <bittorf@bluebottle.com>
Subject: iproute2 / question: returncode when query a match
Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2015 10:16:38 +0200
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when executing e.g.:

root@box:~ ip route list exact '0.0.0.0/0'
default via 10.63.42.125 dev eth0.2  metric 2 onlink 
root@box:~ echo $?
0
root@box:~ ip route list exact '0.0.0.0/8'
root@box:~ echo $?
0

i expected an RC of != 0 when there is no match.
is this by design?

root@box:~ ip -V
ip utility, iproute2-ss4.0.0-1-openwrt

bye, bastian