From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 31335 invoked by alias); 23 Jul 2002 20:20:48 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 31328 invoked from network); 23 Jul 2002 20:20:47 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO crack.them.org) (65.125.64.184) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 23 Jul 2002 20:20:47 -0000 Received: from dsl254-114-118.nyc1.dsl.speakeasy.net ([216.254.114.118] helo=nevyn.them.org ident=mail) by crack.them.org with asmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17X69I-0002tj-00; Tue, 23 Jul 2002 15:20:48 -0500 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17X69L-0001RP-00; Tue, 23 Jul 2002 16:20:51 -0400 Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 13:58:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Tom Tromey Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: RFA: >, >>, and "tee" operators Message-ID: <20020723202051.GA5427@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Tom Tromey , gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com References: <20020723183956.GA28558@nevyn.them.org> <871y9ub6fj.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> <20020723192325.GA30738@nevyn.them.org> <87d6te8a6o.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87d6te8a6o.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i X-SW-Source: 2002-07/txt/msg00464.txt.bz2 On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 02:24:15PM -0600, Tom Tromey wrote: > >>>>> "Daniel" == Daniel Jacobowitz writes: > > >> transcript > FILE > >> transcript >> FILE > >> transcript | COMMAND > > Daniel> I don't like this syntax very much. It looks too much like > Daniel> dumping the output of a command ("transcript") to the file, > Daniel> not like a redirection for the future output. > > Good point. > > Daniel> Also - is piping to a command actually useful? > > I don't know. I haven't even been running with this patch in place, > since the feature in general is only occasionally useful to me. I > thought I saw a request for this (piping to a command)? > > Daniel> Hmm... How do you feel about: > Daniel> transcript [-append] FILE > Daniel> tee [-append] FILE > Daniel> Where transcript replaces ">" and ">>"? > > That looks good to me. Or even `transcript [-tee] [-append] FILE'. > Or maybe `[-notee]', with tee as the default. I'd rather have tee as the default, also. But -notee doesn't look right, so I left it as two commands. Anyone else out on the list have a suggestion? -- Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer