Description: When using libreoffice as a non-interactive command line tool, the exit status seems to always be zero even if fatal errors occurred. This causes unsuspecting scripts to continue their merry way without realizing that something went horribly wrong. The Linux/Unix rule is that a ZERO exit status means "success" and non-zero means otherwise. Steps to Reproduce: 1. libreoffice --convert-to "bogus" /dev/null >Error: source file could not be loaded 2. echo $? Actual Results: 0 exit status Expected Results: non-zero exit status Reproducible: Always User Profile Reset: No Additional Info: For reference, here is a complete command to extract sheets from a spreadsheet into .csv files in the current directory. You can substitute valid and invalid input file names to test "working" and "failing" cases: libreoffice --convert-to "csv:Text - txt - csv (StarCalc):44,34,76,1,,,true,,true,false,-1" FILE.xlsx
Repro Arch Linux 64-bit, X11 Version: 24.2.0.0.alpha0+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community Build ID: 2d0268f5ae6061bc96c00481c9ef3547be300b5a CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 6.4; UI render: default; VCL: kf5 (cairo+xcb) Locale: fi-FI (fi_FI.UTF-8); UI: en-US Calc: threaded Built on 10 August 2023
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This appears to be fixed in master (26.2.0.0.alpha0+). Thanks to whoever made this change!
Ah, indeed, this was fixed in bug 148275 *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 148275 ***