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Bingo. The arguments for making unix harder than it has to be by sending help to stderr when the user has asked for it is the kind of stuff that gives linux it’
by ImaCake 3y ago
Bingo. The arguments for making unix harder than it has to be by sending help to stderr when the user has asked for it is the kind of stuff that gives linux it’s bad reputation.
- School-Cotton 3y agoAFAIK all standard tools on typical Linux distributions send help to stdout when it’s been asked for, and to stderr when it’s a response to a malformed command. Third parties can make their software do whatever they want, but that’s hardly “Linux”’s fault.