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| author | Wladimir J. van der Laan <laanwj@gmail.com> | 2012-10-04 07:56:57 +0200 |
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| committer | Wladimir J. van der Laan <laanwj@gmail.com> | 2012-10-04 07:56:57 +0200 |
| commit | bb353618f16d1faf29de2f1fe4ad191122c90c27 (patch) | |
| tree | ce4043604bf5db205d9c2137657f212fedb79473 | |
| parent | 0547b02af78dcf2d84e4905b56c7f95d9582b2f9 (diff) | |
Send --help message to stdout i.s.o stderr
This allows fun stuff such as `bitcoin --help | less`, and more
easy piping to files.
Looking at other tools such as bash, gcc, they all send their help
text to stdout.
| -rw-r--r-- | src/init.cpp | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | src/qt/guiutil.cpp | 2 |
2 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/src/init.cpp b/src/init.cpp index 7e2cda6297..0084dd6744 100644 --- a/src/init.cpp +++ b/src/init.cpp @@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ bool AppInit(int argc, char* argv[]) strUsage += "\n" + HelpMessage(); - fprintf(stderr, "%s", strUsage.c_str()); + fprintf(stdout, "%s", strUsage.c_str()); return false; } diff --git a/src/qt/guiutil.cpp b/src/qt/guiutil.cpp index d2d7716dbd..ff70ca24af 100644 --- a/src/qt/guiutil.cpp +++ b/src/qt/guiutil.cpp @@ -439,7 +439,7 @@ void HelpMessageBox::printToConsole() { // On other operating systems, the expected action is to print the message to the console. QString strUsage = header + "\n" + coreOptions + "\n" + uiOptions; - fprintf(stderr, "%s", strUsage.toStdString().c_str()); + fprintf(stdout, "%s", strUsage.toStdString().c_str()); } void HelpMessageBox::showOrPrint() |