[S3tools-general] s3cmd get s3://whatever/nonexistant creates empty file

[Ketil F. <ke...@fr...>]

Hi,

When I run s3cmd get and specify a path to an object (or even bucket)
that doesn't exist (or I don't have access to), s3cmd still creates
the local file before reporting an error. This leaves the caller with
extra work when s3cmd returns an error. For example:

$ s3cmd get s3://98ugfuhsifushf/oijsdfoijsfoisjf
s3://98ugfuhsifushf/oijsdfoijsfoisjf -> ./oijsdfoijsfoisjf  [1 of 1]
ERROR: S3 error: 404 (Not Found)
$ echo $?
1
$ ls -l oijsdfoijsfoisjf
-rw-r--r-- 1 ubuntu ubuntu 0 2010-08-16 10:45 oijsdfoijsfoisjf

Cheers, Ketil