silliness with google searches

By way of Schwern (link is to a thread, i've quoted the first message below):

http://smylers.hates-software.com/2008/02/12/c0df67ed.html

From: Smylers
Date: 13:43 on 12 Feb 2008
Subject: mysqldump Error Messages

$ mysqldump -p -d > current.sql

Hmmm, that didn't prompt me for my password. And it finished very
quickly! Wonder what it did. Let's look in current.sql:

$ cat current.sql
Usage: mysqldump [OPTIONS] database [tables]
OR mysqldump [OPTIONS] --databases [OPTIONS] DB1 [DB2 DB3...]
OR mysqldump [OPTIONS] --all-databases [OPTIONS]
For more options, use mysqldump --help

Nooooooooo!

The whole purpose of having standard error is that it's the _standard_
place for _errors_ to go. Sending error message to standard output is
just hateful.

Smylers

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