Lennart Poettering <mzerqung@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 22.07.10 16:36, Horst H. von Brand (vonbrand@xxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > > Lennart Poettering <mzerqung@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > [...] > > > > > Well, I think good UI means that you distuingish computer parsable and > > > human readable tools. "status" is human readable. "show"/"check" are > > > computer-parsable. > > > > Mildly disagree. It is nice to be able to remember from people-use what the > > output looks like when computer-parsing it. It is nasty if you have to > > remember that foo(1)'s output is for human consumption, while scripts > > should use bar(8). People will just go ahead and use foo(1), while bitching > > all the time about its nasty format. Here find(1) shows a nice compromise: > > You can make it spit out stuff in computer-friendlier format, but the > > result is not _too_ far removed from its regular output. > Same with systemd. If you use "systemctl status foo.service" the output > is human readable. If it is "systemctl show foo.service" it is computer > parsable. Just a slightly different command of the systemctl tool. Better make that a --parseable (or -C, or --format=<gibberish>) flag for the _same_ (sub)command. Look at rpm or git for examples ;-) -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 2654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 2654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile 2340000 Fax: +56 32 2797513 -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
