On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 09:06:16AM +0200, Andrew McGill wrote:
> I would like to extend fdisk to support input on a single line:
sfdisk ?
> (Every 4 months, I type exactly this by mistake, and get surprised by the
> response. Every 3 months I type "d" [return] "1" [return] and get "1:
> unknown command" and the menu, which is equally distracting.)
Yes, I hate this interface too :-)
> Would it break anything to allow the "parameters" of a command to be given on
For example "d 1 2 3 4" to delete four partitions sound really cool.
Go ahead, but don't use one huge patch for all commands, please. We
needn't to support this feature for all command -- we can start with
small set of simple commands like "d" or "t".
Karel
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