On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 12:17 PM, Horst H. von Brand <vonbrand@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Great to know about that. And yes, it is extremely relevant for a sysadmin > to know how to tickle the system so it spits out awk(1)-able logs and stuff. Hmm... can these tools learn to prefer a certain format when they are piped into another program and then prefer a different format when they are just outputting to an active console. And then the preferred behaviour can be overridden when specific commandline arguments are present? Don't other tools exhibit this sort of functionality? foo show | awk would assume one line awkable output foo show would assume human readable foo show -1 would force one line awkable output foo show -v | awk would force human readable into awk or some such. -jef -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
