diff --git a/plugins/org.eclipse.wtp.releng.tools/examplebinscripts/checkMirrors.sh b/plugins/org.eclipse.wtp.releng.tools/examplebinscripts/checkMirrors.sh
index 63e29945ac8843a3d57fd2da788a52e629a77d83..dff875dc62fc80687685eb154f2612fcc1498a1d 100644
--- a/plugins/org.eclipse.wtp.releng.tools/examplebinscripts/checkMirrors.sh
+++ b/plugins/org.eclipse.wtp.releng.tools/examplebinscripts/checkMirrors.sh
@@ -14,8 +14,8 @@
 
 function usage() {
     printf "\n\tSimple script to count number of mirrors available for a particular URL" >&2
-    printf "\n\tUsage: %s [-h] | [-v] [-f] [-p] urls" $(basename $0) >&2
-    printf "\n\t\t%s" "where h==help, v==verbose, f==only ftp mirrors, p==only http mirrors " >&2
+    printf "\n\tUsage: %s [-h] | [-v] [-f] [-p] [-t number] urls" $(basename $0) >&2
+    printf "\n\t\t%s" "where h==help, v==verbose, f==only ftp mirrors, p==only http mirrors, t==test against 'number' " >&2
     printf "\n\t\t%s"    "and urls is space delimited list of URL parameters," >&2
     printf "\n\t\t%s\n"  "such as /ganymede/releases/site.xml" >&2
 }
@@ -39,15 +39,34 @@ function checkMirrorsForURL() {
     fi
     
     nMirrors=$(wget -q -O - "http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/download.php?file=${mirrorURL}&format=xml${protocolarg}" | grep \<mirror\ | wc -l)
-    echo "    number of" ${pword} "mirrors: " ${nMirrors} "  for" ${mirrorURL} 
+    echo "    number of" ${pword} "mirrors: " ${nMirrors} "  for" ${mirrorURL} >&2 
+    echo $nMirrors
+}
 
+function minvalue() {
+ref=$1
+comp=$2
+result=
+if [ -z $comp ]
+then
+    result=$ref
+else
+    if [ $ref -lt $comp ]
+    then
+        result=$ref
+    else
+        result=$comp
+    fi
+fi
+echo $result
 }
 
+
 urls=
 ftponly=0
 httponly=0
 protocol=
-while getopts 'hvfp' OPTION
+while getopts 'hvfpt:' OPTION
 do
     case $OPTION in
         h)    usage
@@ -59,6 +78,8 @@ do
         ;;
         v)    verbose=1
         ;;  
+        t)    testNumber=$OPTARG
+        ;;
         ?)    usage
         exit 2
         ;;
@@ -67,7 +88,7 @@ done
 
 shift $(($OPTIND - 1))
 
-urls=$*
+urls="$@"
 
 if [ $ftponly == 1 ]
 then
@@ -89,14 +110,41 @@ then
  echo "urls: " $urls
 fi 
 
+minimumMirrors=
 if [ "${urls}" ] 
 then 
   echo
-  for mirrorURL in $urls
+  for mirrorURL in ${urls}
   do
-   checkMirrorsForURL $mirrorURL $protocol
+   nm=$(checkMirrorsForURL $mirrorURL $protocol)
+   minimumMirrors=`minvalue $nm $minimumMirrors`
   done
   echo
 else
   usage
 fi
+
+if [ -z $testNumber ]
+then
+ if [ $verbose ]
+ then 
+   echo "no test mode"
+ fi
+ exit 0
+else
+ fresult=$((testNumber - minimumMirrors))
+ if [ $fresult -le 0 ]
+ then
+   if [ $verbose ]
+   then 
+     echo "minimum mirrors was greater than or equal to criteria"
+   fi
+   exit 0
+ else  
+    if [ $verbose ]
+     then 
+       echo "minimum mirrors was not as large as criteria"
+     fi
+   exit $fresult
+ fi 
+fi
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