edf2csv 0.7.45 → 0.7.47

package/dist/cli.js

@@ -215,6 +215,29 @@ export async function main(argv) {
         process.stderr.write(`No input file given.\n\n${USAGE}`);
         return EXIT_USAGE;
     }
+    /*
+      An empty --out, refused here rather than by the filesystem.
+  
+      Every other option that takes a value refuses an empty one from the command line and says
+      what it wanted: `--start is empty`, `--channels was given but lists no channel names`,
+      `--layout must be "wide" or "long", got ""`. `--out ""` was the eighth of eight and the
+      exception — it went the whole way to `mkdir('')` and came back as a conversion failure
+      about a path:
+  
+          error: Cannot create "": part of the path does not exist.
+                 Check the path exists and that you have permission to write there.
+  
+      Exit 1 where the other seven are exit 2, advice about a path and a permission for a value
+      that is neither, and in a batch it is decided once per recording rather than once for the
+      run. `--out "$DEST"` with `DEST` unset is how it gets written by accident, which is also
+      why the empty string alone is refused and the value is not trimmed first: a directory whose
+      name is a space is a strange thing to ask for, but it is a thing the filesystem has and a
+      path is not a keyword.
+    */
+    if (values['out'] === '') {
+        process.stderr.write('error: --out is empty. Give a directory, for example --out ./converted.\n');
+        return EXIT_USAGE;
+    }
     let expanded;
     let unreadable;
     let namedDirectory;