restic/doc/075_scripting.rst

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Scripting
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This is a list of how certain tasks may be accomplished when you use
restic via scripts.

Check if a repository is already initialized
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You may find a need to check if a repository is already initialized,
perhaps to prevent your script from initializing a repository multiple
times. The command ``cat config`` may be used for this purpose:

.. code-block:: console

    $ restic -r /srv/restic-repo cat config
    Fatal: unable to open config file: stat /srv/restic-repo/config: no such file or directory
    Is there a repository at the following location?
    /srv/restic-repo

If a repository does not exist, restic will return a non-zero exit code
and print an error message. Note that restic will also return a non-zero
exit code if a different error is encountered (e.g.: incorrect password
to ``cat config``) and it may print a different error message. If there
are no errors, restic will return a zero exit code and print the repository
metadata.