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[204.195.96.226]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id a92af1059eb24-141019a0528sm8213083c88.1.2026.08.07.08.43.10 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Fri, 07 Aug 2026 08:43:11 -0700 (PDT) From: Stephen Hemminger To: netdev@vger.kernel.org Cc: dsahern@gmail.com, Stephen Hemminger Subject: [PATCH iproute2-next 2/7] ip/routel: follow help vs usage convention Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2026 08:42:25 -0700 Message-ID: <20260807154306.111200-3-stephen@networkplumber.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.53.0 In-Reply-To: <20260807154306.111200-1-stephen@networkplumber.org> References: <20260807154306.111200-1-stephen@networkplumber.org> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: netdev@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Similar to update to ip, put help on stdout and usage on stderr. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger --- ip/routel | 11 ++++++----- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/ip/routel b/ip/routel index 09a90126..defe738c 100755 --- a/ip/routel +++ b/ip/routel @@ -11,10 +11,11 @@ import getopt import subprocess -def usage(): +def usage(help=False): '''Print usage and exit''' - print("Usage: {} [tablenr [raw ip args...]]".format(sys.argv[0])) - sys.exit(64) + print("Usage: {} [tablenr [raw ip args...]]".format(sys.argv[0]), + file=sys.stdout if help else sys.stderr) + sys.exit(0 if help else 1) def main(): @@ -23,12 +24,12 @@ def main(): try: opts, args = getopt.getopt(sys.argv[1:], "h46f:", ["help", "family="]) except getopt.GetoptError as err: - print(err) + print(err, file=sys.stderr) usage() for opt, arg in opts: if opt in ["-h", "--help"]: - usage() + usage(True) elif opt == '-6': family = 'inet6' elif opt == "-4": -- 2.53.0