edf2csv 0.8.36 → 0.8.38

package/dist/cli.js

@@ -229,7 +229,21 @@ export async function main(argv) {
         return EXIT_OK;
     }
     if (positionals.length === 0) {
-        process.stderr.write(`No input file given.\n\n${USAGE}`);
+        /*
+          Shaped like the other refusals, and the last one that was not.
+    
+          Every usage error this tool prints opens `error: <what>` with its advice indented under
+          it, because a refusal that does not match `^error:` is invisible to the grep that finds
+          all the others. This one printed its sentence flush left and then all 68 lines of
+          `--help` onto stderr — a page of options in a batch log, under a line no filter catches.
+    
+          It is not a rare one either. `edf2csv $FILE` with `FILE` unset arrives here with no
+          positionals at all, which is the same accident as the `--out "$DEST"` the comment below
+          is about, one variable earlier.
+        */
+        process.stderr.write('error: No input file given.\n' +
+            '       Pass a recording, or a folder of them.\n\n' +
+            'Run edf2csv --help to see the options.\n');
         return EXIT_USAGE;
     }
     /*