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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)
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% DOCKER(1) Docker User Manuals % Docker Community % JUNE 2014

NAME

docker-logs - Fetch the logs of a container

SYNOPSIS

docker logs [-f|--follow[=false]] [--help] [-t|--timestamps[=false]] [--tail[="all"]] CONTAINER

DESCRIPTION

The docker logs command batch-retrieves whatever logs are present for a container at the time of execution. This does not guarantee execution order when combined with a docker run (i.e. your run may not have generated any logs at the time you execute docker logs).

The docker logs --follow command combines commands docker logs and docker attach. It will first return all logs from the beginning and then continue streaming new output from the containers stdout and stderr.

OPTIONS

--help Print usage statement

-f, --follow=true|false Follow log output. The default is false.

-t, --timestamps=true|false Show timestamps. The default is false.

--tail="all" Output the specified number of lines at the end of logs (defaults to all logs)

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 July 2014, updated by Sven Dowideit SvenDowideit@home.org.au