def usage(err=''):
    """  Prints the Usage() statement for the program    """
    m = '%s\n' %err
    m += '  Default usage is to get Branch status info from SalesForce using branch names in a file.\n'
    m += '  Branch name is first space seperated value on a row of the file.\n'
    m += '  \n'
    m += '    branchls -f path_to_file \n'
    m += '      or\n'
    m += '    branchls -f filename_in_cwd \n  '
    return m