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authorFredrik Wallgren <[email protected]>2015-11-09 10:27:15 +0100
committerFredrik Wallgren <[email protected]>2015-11-09 10:27:15 +0100
commit935b2a1bd5710aede269d46752e59fba916abaea (patch)
treee75c1831a0f73b71440f7e82c597dcc5cd22f177 /usage.go
parent53364a0be4ce4b3a84cefd6fac452fb953cd5acf (diff)
Write usage message to stderr on error
When the parsing of parameters/flags fails eg. when a required flag is missing, print the usage statement and error to stderr instead of stdout.
Diffstat (limited to 'usage.go')
-rw-r--r--usage.go4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/usage.go b/usage.go
index 4852866..a1ed5a2 100644
--- a/usage.go
+++ b/usage.go
@@ -9,9 +9,9 @@ import (
"strings"
)
-// Fail prints usage information to stdout and exits with non-zero status
+// Fail prints usage information to stderr and exits with non-zero status
func (p *Parser) Fail(msg string) {
- p.WriteUsage(os.Stdout)
+ p.WriteUsage(os.Stderr)
fmt.Println("error:", msg)
os.Exit(-1)
}