I assume this exits with code e.g. 1 instead of 0 when printing help? Other commands e.g. ls, tar, etc exit with code 0 when printing help, so we should do the same.

Unless I misunderstood this?

Our client specification v1.4 suggests to use a non-zero error code for finding pages but doesn't cover the usage part. (tldr-pages/tldr#4246)

Feel free to update the exit code in this branch.

* Specifically, a client MUST exit with a non-zero exit code if the page could not be found anywhere.

I assume this exits with code e.g. 1 instead of 0 when printing help? Other commands e.g. ls, tar, etc exit with code 0 when printing help, so we should do the same.

Unless I misunderstood this?

This exits with 1 on a getopt error.

For example:

• tldr -a, which is an unknown argument, exits with 1 and displays a getopt error.
• tldr -v exits with 0 and displays the version.

You can even test this by running these commands:

$ tldr -a 2> /dev/null; echo $?
1
$ tldr -v > /dev/null; echo $?
0

Ah okay. So can you confirm that when you call e.g. tldr --help it exits with code 0, @4G3NT?

Ah okay. So can you confirm that when you call e.g. tldr --help it exits with code 0, @4G3NT?

Yes, it exits with code 0 because of this code:

if (help_flag) {
    print_usage(argv[0]);
    return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}

Very cool, many thanks!

See below comment about exiting with code 0 instead of 1 being preferable when printing help.