I think "ERROR: * is not a valid argument for ..." messages should go to stderr

[Andrew Hilborne]

Is there any reason that messages like this:

ERROR: orgUnitPath is not a valid argument for "gam print users"

.. and many others, are printed to stdout? I know that gam isn't just a unix/linux program, but standard behaviour is to print results to stdout, errors to stderr. This is very much expected behaviour, and allows scripts which do something like this:

if gam some command >results 2>errors; then

    (echo 'Command succeed. Results below'; cat results) | Mail -s 'Overnight gam command' administrator

else

    Mail -s 'Overnight gam failed' support <errors

fi

Right now, I am simply regularly surprised when these errors pop up on an unexpected output channel (stdout.)