Command “f?flagname” doesn't work as expected in radare2

Question

PS C:\_> r2 -v
radare2 4.3.1 6 @ windows-x86-64 git.4.3.1
commit: 54ac837b5503f10f91e2069ac357791f7a3e635a build: Fri 03/06/2020__15:52:24.93
PS C:\_> r2 --
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[0x00000000]> f myflag
[0x00000000]> f*
fs *
f myflag 1 0x00000000
[0x00000000]> f?myflag ;expect an output here
[0x00000000]> f?~exists
| f?flagname               check if flag exists or not, See ?? and ?!

The command f?myflag doesn't print any output as if the flag doesn't exist. Why does it happen?

As a bonus question :), what does See ?? and ?! mean?

Answer 1

It just doesn't print anything on the the screen but set's internal value. You can be verifie that by looking at the source code here.

What it does tell you to do is to run ?? which is actually printing that value as can be seen in the help

| ??                               show value of operation

Additionally based on the result you can run the operation or not.

| ?! [cmd]                         run cmd if $? == 0
| ?? [cmd]                         run cmd if $? != 0

[0x00000000]> f?non-existent-flag
[0x00000000]> ?? ?E exists //<- action is not executed
[0x00000000]> f?myflag
[0x00000000]> ?? ?E exists
 ╭──╮    ╭────────╮
 │ _│    │        │
 │ O O  <  exists │
 │  │╭   │        │
 ││ ││   ╰────────╯
 │└─┘│
 ╰───╯