Giving the new fix a test:
% badblocks -nw /dev/hda4 ; echo $?
The -n and -w options are mutually exclusive.
Usage: badblocks [-b block_size] [-i input_file] [-o output_file]
[-svwnf]
[-c blocks_at_once] [-p num_passes] [-t test_pattern [-t test_pattern
[...]]]
device [last_block [start_block]]
1
That is better. I've one qualm though -- shouldn't the error text be
prefaced with the program's name? e.g.:
badblocks: The -n and -w options are mutually exclusive.
Supposing badblocks was used in a script, and somehow the error
occurred; if the script called many programs, a person trying to debug
the output of that script might not know what program produced the
error message.
HTH...
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