fix: set SilenceUsage/SilenceErrors and print errors to stderr
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Open main.go and inspect the root Cobra command around lines 13-16 and error handling around line 22. Confirm the command suppresses Cobra's usage and duplicate errors, and that execution errors are sent to stderr; done means the CLI reports errors without polluting stdout.
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Description
Summary
The root command is missing two critical Cobra settings, and errors are printed to stdout instead of stderr.
1. Missing SilenceUsage and SilenceErrors
main.go:13-16:
rootCmd := &cobra.Command{
Use: "gorm",
Short: "GORM CLI Tool",
}
Without SilenceUsage: true, Cobra prints the full usage/help text on every RunE error. Without SilenceErrors: true, Cobra also prints the error itself, so the manual fmt.Println(err) in main causes the error to appear twice.
2. Error printed to stdout
main.go:22:
fmt.Println(err)
This writes to stdout. Errors must go to stderr so they don't corrupt piped output when the CLI is used in pipelines.
Fix
rootCmd := &cobra.Command{
Use: "gorm",
Short: "GORM CLI Tool",
SilenceUsage: true,
SilenceErrors: true,
}
// In main():
if err := rootCmd.Execute(); err != nil {
fmt.Fprintln(os.Stderr, err)
os.Exit(1)
}
References
- Cobra docs — SilenceUsage
- Unix convention: stdout is for program output, stderr is for diagnostics/errors
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- Go
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