Merge c392346 into bfef56a

processor/file.go

@@ -80,7 +80,15 @@ func walkDirectoryParallel(root string, output chan *FileJob) {
 	var all []os.FileInfo
 	// clean path including trailing slashes
 	root = filepath.Clean(root)
-	target, _ := os.Lstat(root)
+	target, err := os.Lstat(root)
+
+	if err != nil {
+		// This error is non-recoverable due to user input so hard crash
+		printError(err.Error())
+		os.Exit(1)
+		return
+	}
+
 	if !target.IsDir() {
 		// create an array with a single FileInfo
 		all = append(all, target)

processor/formatters.go

@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ import (
 	"fmt"
 	glang "golang.org/x/text/language"
 	gmessage "golang.org/x/text/message"
+	"os"
 	"sort"
 	"strings"
 	"time"
@@ -528,3 +529,8 @@ func printTrace(msg string) {
 		fmt.Println(fmt.Sprintf("TRACE %s: %s", getFormattedTime(), msg))
 	}
 }
+
+// Used when explicitly for os.exit output when crashing out
+func printError(msg string) {
+	_, _ = fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "ERROR %s: %s", getFormattedTime(), msg)
+}

processor/formatters_test.go

@@ -26,6 +26,10 @@ func TestPrintWarn(t *testing.T) {
 	printWarn("Testing print warn")
 }
 
+func TestPrintError(t *testing.T) {
+	printError("Testing print error")
+}
+
 func TestGetFormattedTime(t *testing.T) {
 	res := getFormattedTime()