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kubectl delete doesn't return error or print resource not found #8218
Description
If you run kubectl delete resource <non_existent_resource_name>, kubectl exits with 0 and prints nothing.
E.g.
$ ./cluster/kubectl.sh delete pod abc
$ echo $?
0
I expected to see a "resource not found" message and/or an error code when this occurred. It's very misleading when you type the wrong resource name and think you delete it.
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liggitt commentedon May 14, 2015
+1
yujuhong commentedon May 15, 2015
/cc @jlowdermilk, @brendanburns
bprashanth commentedon May 15, 2015
Personally i would prefer an fprintf and no error on 404 for delete
j3ffml commentedon May 15, 2015
I'm with @yujuhong on this; it should both print an error and exit nonzero, at least by default. I'm happy to add a
--ignore-not-foundflag for users who want 404s to be silent.bprashanth commentedon May 15, 2015
I don't care about it that much :)
Just that if i was scripting some cron like thing to delete periodically I would like an event or email or some such if deletion failed, but not if the thing is already deleted. I suppose one could always regex the error message or examine the error code.