On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 01:39:06PM -0800, Jeff Spaleta wrote: > 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. > Please don't. /me thinks of python-2.x which treats printing utf8 different when it goes to the console vs being redirected. -Toshio
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