Default usage output to stdout #71
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If the command has not set an output explicitly everything will go to stderr. This makes a lot of sense, but is a huge PITA for people who want to be able to grep the help output. It is very common for users to want to do command --help | grep flag This patch fixes that by default help output (but not error output like an invalid command) to stdout instead of defaulting to stderr.
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If the command has not set an output explicitly everything will go to
stderr. This makes a lot of sense, but is a huge PITA for people who
want to be able to grep the help output. It is very common for users to
want to do
command --help | grep flag
This patch fixes that by default help output (but not error output like
an invalid command) to stdout instead of defaulting to stderr.