zless, znew: exit 1 upon --help or --version write failure

[debian/gzip] / zless.in

diff --git a/zless.in b/zless.in
index 9a3f399d5d37c36942b7240b5b45518a15b531f3..e4da708f778740f388029e04ac24e4d5eaaa0ed2 100644 (file)
--- a/zless.in
+++ b/zless.in
@@ -32,8 +32,8 @@ Options are the same as for 'less'.
 Report bugs to <bug-gzip@gnu.org>."
 
 case $1 in
---help)    exec echo "$usage";;
---version) exec echo "$version";;
+--help)      printf '%s\n' "$usage"   || exit 1; exit;;
+--version)   printf '%s\n' "$version" || exit 1; exit;;
 esac
 
 if test "${LESSMETACHARS+set}" != set; then