gau output (-o) option is not working about gau HOT 8 CLOSED

I have another behavior might be tied to this issue. When I specify an output file with -o, nothing is printed on the console. I that by design or just a miss ?

Thanks !

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Hi @sofily-security,

Thanks for opening this issue. What happens when you run this?

gau -subs -o target.txt target.com

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Hello Ic,

Now when I run with your provided syntax, it's working. It prints the output on console + creating and dumping the result into a file.
root@kali:# gau -subs -o target.txt target.com
root@kali:# ls -l target.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 593920 Sep 3 20:39 framer.txt
root@kali:~#

But again, just to test the previous case, I again run with the initial syntax. It ONLY prints the output on console BUT NOT creating and dumping the result into a file.
root@kali:# gau target.com -subs -o target_2.txt
root@kali:# ls -l target_2.txt
ls: cannot access 'target_2.txt': No such file or directory
root@kali:#

Now this leads me to ask one question:
Why the tool acts differently when providing the TARGET in the middle of the command or at the last of the command?

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@sofily-security this acts differently because of Golang's flag package and my use of NArg

https://github.com/lc/gau/blob/master/main.go#L102

	if flag.NArg() > 0 {
		domains = flag.Args()
	}

NArg is the number of arguments remaining after flags have been processed.

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Understood. Thanks for your prompt response. Good learning tips for me 👍

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I'm going to look into this more and see if I can find a solution, so I'll leave this open for now. Thanks!

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@BastienFaure that is by design

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Hey @sofily-security this is now fixed in the new version of gau!

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