misc/143271: whatis(1) should print error message to stderr

[Jan Schaumann]

>Number:         143271
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       whatis(1) should print error message to stderr
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Jan 26 18:30:07 UTC 2010
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Jan Schaumann
>Release:        
>Organization:
>Environment:
>Description:
If you run 'whatis oink', it will print 'oink: nothing appropriate' to stdout.  This is an error message and should go to stderr.
>How-To-Repeat:
whatis oink
>Fix:
--- /tmp/whatis 2010-01-26 18:20:15.000000000 +0000
+++ /usr/bin/whatis     2009-07-08 19:28:03.000000000 +0000
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@
 
        # nothing found, exit
        if [ -z "$line" -a ! -z "$line2" ]; then
-               printf -- "$line2" >&2
+               printf -- "$line2"
                exit $exit_nomatch
        else
                ( printf -- "$line2"; echo "$line"; cat ) | $PAGER


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