Use standard exit status code for usage errors #256
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The stdlib
flag
package (specificallyExitOnError
) and most command line utilities use status code2
.I tried to find proper sources for common exit status codes, however these are the best I could find:
From: https://stackoverflow.com/a/40484670
From: https://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/exitcodes.html:
More importantly, currently using
-1
(which translates to 255) is actually documented as a bad choice inos.Exit
:Fixes #246