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Don't print long usage messages on a command-line error.
In the course of debugging the command-line argument refactoring in previous commits, I found I wasn't quite sure whether PSCP thought I'd given it too many arguments, or too few, because it didn't print an error message saying which: it just printed its giant usage message. Over the last few years I've come to the belief that this is Just Wrong anyway. Printing the whole of a giant help message should only be done when the user asked for it: otherwise, print a short and to-the-point error, and maybe _suggest_ how to get help, but scrolling everything else off the user's screen is not a good response to a typo. I wrote this thought up more fully last year: https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/quasiblog/stop-helping/ So, time to practise what I preach! The PuTTY tools now follow the 'Stop helping!' principle. You can get full help by saying --help. Also, when we do print the help, we now exit(0) rather than exit(1), because there's no reason to report failure: we successfully did what the user asked us for.
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cmdgen.c
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cmdgen.c
@ -718,10 +718,11 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
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/*
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* If run with at least one argument _but_ not the required
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* ones, print the usage message and return failure.
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* ones, fail with an error.
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*/
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if (!infile && keytype == NOKEYGEN) {
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usage(true);
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fprintf(stderr, "puttygen: expected an input key file name, "
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"or -t for a type of key to generate\n");
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RETURN(1);
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}
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pscp.c
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pscp.c
@ -2236,7 +2236,6 @@ static void usage(void)
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printf(" -logoverwrite\n");
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printf(" -logappend\n");
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printf(" control what happens when a log file already exists\n");
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cleanup_exit(1);
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}
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void version(void)
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@ -2311,6 +2310,7 @@ int psftp_main(CmdlineArgList *arglist)
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strcmp(argstr, "-?") == 0 ||
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strcmp(argstr, "--help") == 0) {
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usage();
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cleanup_exit(0);
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} else if (strcmp(argstr, "-V") == 0 ||
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strcmp(argstr, "--version") == 0) {
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version();
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@ -2351,12 +2351,12 @@ int psftp_main(CmdlineArgList *arglist)
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if (list) {
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if (nscpargs != 1)
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usage();
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cmdline_error("expected a single argument with -ls");
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get_dir_list(scpargs, nscpargs);
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} else {
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if (nscpargs < 2)
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usage();
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cmdline_error("expected at least two arguments");
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if (nscpargs > 2)
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targetshouldbedirectory = true;
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psftp.c
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psftp.c
@ -2565,7 +2565,6 @@ static void usage(void)
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printf(" -logoverwrite\n");
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printf(" -logappend\n");
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printf(" control what happens when a log file already exists\n");
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cleanup_exit(1);
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}
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static void version(void)
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@ -2819,7 +2818,7 @@ int psftp_main(CmdlineArgList *arglist)
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if (argstr[0] != '-') {
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if (userhost)
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usage();
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cmdline_error("unexpected extra argument \"%s\"", argstr);
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else
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userhost = dupstr(argstr);
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continue;
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@ -2837,6 +2836,7 @@ int psftp_main(CmdlineArgList *arglist)
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strcmp(argstr, "-?") == 0 ||
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strcmp(argstr, "--help") == 0) {
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usage();
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cleanup_exit(0);
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} else if (strcmp(argstr, "-pgpfp") == 0) {
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pgp_fingerprints();
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return 1;
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@ -218,7 +218,6 @@ static void usage(void)
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printf(" --tty-prompt force tty-based passphrase prompt\n");
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printf(" --gui-prompt force GUI-based passphrase prompt\n");
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printf(" --askpass <prompt> behave like a standalone askpass program\n");
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exit(1);
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}
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static void version(void)
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@ -573,7 +573,6 @@ static void usage(void)
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printf(" control what happens when a log file already exists\n");
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printf(" -shareexists\n");
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printf(" test whether a connection-sharing upstream exists\n");
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exit(1);
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}
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static void version(void)
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@ -807,7 +806,10 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
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return 1;
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if (!cmdline_host_ok(conf)) {
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usage();
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fprintf(stderr, "plink: no valid host name provided\n"
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"try \"plink --help\" for help\n");
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cmdline_arg_list_free(arglist);
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return 1;
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}
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prepare_session(conf);
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@ -189,7 +189,6 @@ static void usage(void)
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printf(" control what happens when a log file already exists\n");
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printf(" -shareexists\n");
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printf(" test whether a connection-sharing upstream exists\n");
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exit(1);
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}
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static void version(void)
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@ -350,6 +349,7 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
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version();
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} else if (!strcmp(p, "--help")) {
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usage();
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exit(0);
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} else if (!strcmp(p, "-pgpfp")) {
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pgp_fingerprints();
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exit(1);
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@ -395,7 +395,10 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
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return 1;
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if (!cmdline_host_ok(conf)) {
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usage();
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fprintf(stderr, "plink: no valid host name provided\n"
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"try \"plink --help\" for help\n");
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cmdline_arg_list_free(arglist);
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return 1;
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}
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prepare_session(conf);
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