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Dan Walsh a2b529ead2 --help option and help command should print to stdout not stderr
--help and help are successful commands so output should not go to error.

    QE teams have requested this change, also users doing docker help | less
    or docker run --help | less would expect this to work.

    Usage statement should only be printed when the user asks for it.
    Errors should print error message and then suggest the docker COMMAND --help
    command to see usage information.

    The current behaviour causes the user to have to search for the error message
    and sometimes scrolls right off the screen.  For example a error on a
    "docker run" command is very difficult to diagnose.

    Finally erros should always exit with a non 0 exit code, if the user
    makes a CLI error.

Docker-DCO-1.1-Signed-off-by: Dan Walsh <dwalsh@redhat.com> (github: rhatdan)
2015-01-06 13:40:14 +01:00

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% DOCKER(1) Docker User Manuals
% Docker Community
% JUNE 2014
# NAME
docker-cp - Copy files/folders from the PATH to the HOSTPATH
# SYNOPSIS
**docker cp**
[**--help**]
CONTAINER:PATH HOSTPATH
# DESCRIPTION
Copy files/folders from a container's filesystem to the host
path. Paths are relative to the root of the filesystem. Files
can be copied from a running or stopped container.
# OPTIONS
**--help**
Print usage statement
# EXAMPLES
An important shell script file, created in a bash shell, is copied from
the exited container to the current dir on the host:
# docker cp c071f3c3ee81:setup.sh .
# HISTORY
April 2014, Originally compiled by William Henry (whenry at redhat dot com)
based on docker.com source material and internal work.
June 2014, updated by Sven Dowideit <SvenDowideit@home.org.au>