podman-network-exists(1)

✨ podman-network-exists(1) ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the General Commands Manual entry for podman-network-exists — yes it's a whole manual page for the tiniest little question ever, and honestly? iconic. 💅

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🌸 NAME 🌸

podman-network-exists — check if the given network exists 🦋

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💖 SYNOPSIS 💖

podman network exists network

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so podman network exists does exactly one thing and does it flawlessly: it checks if a network exists. main character energy, no notes. 👑

you can hand it either the Name or the ID of the network as input — both work, pick your fighter.

here's the tea on the exit codes, and you're gonna wanna remember these fr fr:

• Podman returns an exit code of 0 when the network is found 🎉
• A 1 is returned otherwise 😭
• An exit code of 125 indicates there was another issue 💀

no cap, 125 means something else went sideways — it's not a "nope, doesn't exist", it's a "girl, something else broke". don't get it twisted.

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• --help, -h — print usage statement. she's helpful like that 🫶

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🌈 EXAMPLE 🌈

Check if specified network exists (the network does actually exist):

$ podman network exists net1
$ echo $?
0

see that 0? that's the slay. ✅

Check if nonexistent network exists:

$ podman network exists webbackend
$ echo $?
1

and that 1? that's the "not me finding out it's not there" 🙈

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💜 SEE ALSO 💜

• podman(1)
• podman-network(1)

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📜 HISTORY 📜

January 2021, Originally compiled by Paul Holzinger <paul.holzinger@web.de> — thank you king, we stan a documentation legend ⭐

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anyway that's the whole page, and yes, the footer at the very bottom just says podman-network-exists(1) again, like a little signature at the end of a love letter 💌 from the General Commands Manual, dating allll the way back to January 2021. periodt. 💖✨🎀