overwriting LICENSE silently

[s3i7h]

I wanted to generate a license text that I can copy/paste to other place, but I accidentally overwrote the LICENSE file of the project where I was in. Maybe just printing the output to stdout might be sufficient?

[azu]

Maybe just printing the output to stdout might be sufficient?

license-generator/src/main.rs

Lines 54 to 57 in 7486269

	write_license(&license_text, "LICENSE").unwrap_or_else(|error| {
	eprintln!("Can not write LICENSE file: {}", error);
	process::exit(1);
	});

Make write_license optional and it can be realized, but I do not know a suitable CLI flag name.

Probably, if a tool generates to stdout by default, it is good the tool has --output flag.
However, license-generator aims to generate LICENSE file.
So, this tool's main purpose is the opposite of that behavior.

Maybe, We need to add --output flag.

Options:
  --author input author name
  --project input project name that is required by some license
  --year input license year 
  --output path to output. Default: ./LICENSE

Output to stdout:

license-generate --output /dev/stdout

[s3i7h]

I think that's agreeable.
Can I write a PR for this?

[azu]

Yes! Welcome to PR!