On 19/05/07, Daniel Rock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hugh McIntyre schrieb:
> You can use (n)awk in the case above. For example, what happens with
> "cut" in the case above if a future project allows usernames >8
> characters? But granted that some people will have scripts that use
> "cut", so it's hard to change.
Compatible formatting if stdout is not a terminal.
Optimized formatting if stdout is a terminal.
Which would be really annoying to me as a user.
I would go to look at the output, think "I'll just pipe that to such
and such command" and then wonder why my parsing wasn't working...
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