Print --version to stdout (closes #15)
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Cobra's built-in version flag prints through the writer that carries
help and usage, which is stderr here. The root command now defines
its own -v/--version flag and prints one line, "sfdupes VERSION", to
stdout; a failed write is a fatal error (exit 1). Help and usage stay
on stderr. README documents --version and --help, their streams and
exit codes. Tests cover both flags and the failed write.

Model: opus-5-5
This commit was merged in pull request #78.
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2026-10-04 09:47:28 +02:00
parent 4847882e46
commit cb5dda4f45
4 changed files with 103 additions and 36 deletions
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@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
// sfdupes scan [--workers N] [-x] PATH...
// sfdupes report > dupes.tsv
// sfdupes trees > dupetrees.tsv
// sfdupes --version
//
// See README.md for the complete specification.
package main
@@ -104,15 +105,29 @@ func run(args []string, stdout, stderr io.Writer) int {
}
// newRootCommand builds the command tree. Everything on stdout is
// machine-readable data; all human-facing output (help, usage, errors)
// goes to stderr.
// machine-readable data, the version line included; all human-facing
// output (help, usage, errors) goes to stderr.
func newRootCommand(stdout, stderr io.Writer) *cobra.Command {
var showVersion bool
printVersion := runE(func(context.Context, []string) error {
_, err := fmt.Fprintf(stdout, "sfdupes %s\n", Version)
if err != nil {
return fmt.Errorf("write stdout: %w", err)
}
return nil
})
root := &cobra.Command{
Use: "sfdupes",
Short: "Find candidate duplicate files by size and head/tail/content SHA-256",
Version: Version,
Args: cobra.NoArgs,
RunE: func(cmd *cobra.Command, _ []string) error {
Use: "sfdupes",
Short: "Find candidate duplicate files by size and head/tail/content SHA-256",
Args: cobra.NoArgs,
RunE: func(cmd *cobra.Command, args []string) error {
if showVersion {
return printVersion(cmd, args)
}
// A missing subcommand prints usage and exits 2: cobra
// prints the usage text for the returned error, and run
// maps everything that is not a fatal error to exit 2.
@@ -125,6 +140,11 @@ func newRootCommand(stdout, stderr io.Writer) *cobra.Command {
root.SetErr(stderr)
root.CompletionOptions.DisableDefaultCmd = true
// Cobra's built-in version flag prints through the help writer,
// stderr; this one prints to stdout.
root.Flags().BoolVarP(&showVersion, "version", "v", false,
"print the version to stdout")
var (
scanWorkers int
scanOneFS bool
@@ -169,13 +189,13 @@ func newRootCommand(stdout, stderr io.Writer) *cobra.Command {
return root
}
// runE adapts a subcommand implementation to cobra's RunE. Cobra
// prints the error and the command's usage text for every error RunE
// returns, but a subcommand that ran and failed has no usage problem
// to report: both are silenced here, and the error is marked fatal so
// that run reports it on stderr and exits 1 rather than 2. The command's
// context is handed to the implementation: cancelling it unwinds the
// scan's worker pools.
// runE adapts a subcommand implementation, or the version print, to
// cobra's RunE. Cobra prints the error and the command's usage text for
// every error RunE returns, but a subcommand that ran and failed has no
// usage problem to report: both are silenced here, and the error is
// marked fatal so that run reports it on stderr and exits 1 rather than
// 2. The command's context is handed to the implementation: cancelling
// it unwinds the scan's worker pools.
func runE(
fn func(ctx context.Context, args []string) error,
) func(*cobra.Command, []string) error {