On Wednesday, January 11, 2023 2:39:47 PM CET Daniel Stenberg via curl-library wrote: > On Wed, 11 Jan 2023, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > > I would not put it on the first line. Some folks may be parsing the > > first line for a version number using something like: > > > > curl_version=$(curl -V | head -n 1 | cut -f 2 -d ' ') > > > > Somewhere further down in the stack would probably be a better choice. > > Good point. We could also consider making the first two lines get sent to > stderr, as it gives the same visual but the command line you show here would > work...
Unless someone uses `curl -V 2>&1 | grep ...` like curl's autoconf test did it with GCC: https://github.com/curl/curl/commit/curl-7_49_1-45-gb2dcf0347 Kamil -- Unsubscribe: https://lists.haxx.se/listinfo/curl-library Etiquette: https://curl.se/mail/etiquette.html