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I disable networking and run
simon@falcon:
$ youtube-dl --version$ youtube-dl -U2014.12.17.2
simon@falcon:
ERROR: can't find the current version. Please try again later.
simon@falcon:~$ echo $?
0
Why not set an non-zero exit status and print the message to STDERR?
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