colortail sends error text out to stdout instead of stderr

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Like the tail command line utility but with colors

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colortail sends error text out to stdout instead of stderr #3

Closed phord closed 6 years ago

phord commented 13 years ago

Error responses should go to stderr so as to avoid worsening scripted badness.

colortail /foobar|hexdump -C
00000000  63 6f 6c 6f 72 74 61 69  6c 3a 20 46 61 69 6c 65  |colortail: Faile|
00000010  64 20 74 6f 20 6f 70 65  6e 20 66 69 6c 65 3a 20  |d to open file: |
00000020  2f 66 6f 6f 62 61 72 0a  3d 3d 3e 20 2f 66 6f 6f  |/foobar.==> /foo|
00000030  62 61 72 20 3c 3d 3d 0a                           |bar <==.|
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joakim666 commented 6 years ago

Closing issue after merge of fix to master branch.