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Print help to stderr on error #1154

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mohd-akram opened this issue Jun 21, 2018 · 0 comments
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Print help to stderr on error #1154

mohd-akram opened this issue Jun 21, 2018 · 0 comments
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change command-line options documentation

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Currently, help is always printed to stdout regardless of whether it was specifically requested (via -h, --help) or there was an error. This can lead to the help text being included in output files. Ideally, it should output to stdout when requested and stderr otherwise.
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