diff --git a/src/uu/csplit/src/csplit.rs b/src/uu/csplit/src/csplit.rs
index 0d99154df..b4bf72d96 100644
--- a/src/uu/csplit/src/csplit.rs
+++ b/src/uu/csplit/src/csplit.rs
@@ -2,15 +2,19 @@
 
 #[macro_use]
 extern crate uucore;
-use clap::{crate_version, App, Arg, ArgMatches};
-use regex::Regex;
+
 use std::cmp::Ordering;
 use std::io::{self, BufReader};
 use std::{
     fs::{remove_file, File},
     io::{BufRead, BufWriter, Write},
 };
+
+use clap::{crate_version, App, Arg, ArgMatches};
+use regex::Regex;
 use uucore::display::Quotable;
+use uucore::error::{FromIo, UResult};
+use uucore::InvalidEncodingHandling;
 
 mod csplit_error;
 mod patterns;
@@ -18,7 +22,6 @@ mod split_name;
 
 use crate::csplit_error::CsplitError;
 use crate::split_name::SplitName;
-use uucore::InvalidEncodingHandling;
 
 static SUMMARY: &str = "split a file into sections determined by context lines";
 static LONG_HELP: &str = "Output pieces of FILE separated by PATTERN(s) to files 'xx00', 'xx01', ..., and output byte counts of each piece to standard output.";
@@ -712,7 +715,8 @@ mod tests {
     }
 }
 
-pub fn uumain(args: impl uucore::Args) -> i32 {
+#[uucore_procs::gen_uumain]
+pub fn uumain(args: impl uucore::Args) -> UResult<()> {
     let usage = usage();
     let args = args
         .collect_str(InvalidEncodingHandling::Ignore)
@@ -729,20 +733,22 @@ pub fn uumain(args: impl uucore::Args) -> i32 {
         .unwrap()
         .map(str::to_string)
         .collect();
-    let patterns = crash_if_err!(1, patterns::get_patterns(&patterns[..]));
+    let patterns = patterns::get_patterns(&patterns[..])?;
     let options = CsplitOptions::new(&matches);
     if file_name == "-" {
         let stdin = io::stdin();
-        crash_if_err!(1, csplit(&options, patterns, stdin.lock()));
+        Ok(csplit(&options, patterns, stdin.lock())?)
     } else {
-        let file = crash_if_err!(1, File::open(file_name));
-        let file_metadata = crash_if_err!(1, file.metadata());
+        let file = File::open(file_name)
+            .map_err_context(|| format!("cannot access {}", file_name.quote()))?;
+        let file_metadata = file
+            .metadata()
+            .map_err_context(|| format!("cannot access {}", file_name.quote()))?;
         if !file_metadata.is_file() {
-            crash!(1, "{} is not a regular file", file_name.quote());
+            return Err(CsplitError::NotRegularFile(file_name.to_string()).into());
         }
-        crash_if_err!(1, csplit(&options, patterns, BufReader::new(file)));
-    };
-    0
+        Ok(csplit(&options, patterns, BufReader::new(file))?)
+    }
 }
 
 pub fn uu_app() -> App<'static, 'static> {
diff --git a/src/uu/csplit/src/csplit_error.rs b/src/uu/csplit/src/csplit_error.rs
index 1d4823ee2..53d48a026 100644
--- a/src/uu/csplit/src/csplit_error.rs
+++ b/src/uu/csplit/src/csplit_error.rs
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ use std::io;
 use thiserror::Error;
 
 use uucore::display::Quotable;
+use uucore::error::UError;
 
 /// Errors thrown by the csplit command
 #[derive(Debug, Error)]
@@ -28,6 +29,8 @@ pub enum CsplitError {
     SuffixFormatIncorrect,
     #[error("too many % conversion specifications in suffix")]
     SuffixFormatTooManyPercents,
+    #[error("{} is not a regular file", ._0.quote())]
+    NotRegularFile(String),
 }
 
 impl From<io::Error> for CsplitError {
@@ -35,3 +38,9 @@ impl From<io::Error> for CsplitError {
         CsplitError::IoError(error)
     }
 }
+
+impl UError for CsplitError {
+    fn code(&self) -> i32 {
+        1
+    }
+}