On 19/05/07, Doug Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Shawn Walker wrote: > 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... > Ok, you have never tried piping the 'ls' command.
My point is that it is unexpected behaviour. It doesn't matter if some other command does it or not. And no, I have never tried to parse the output of ls. I don't like "magic switches" -- and that is exactly what that behaviour feels like. A program that pretends to know better than me, and that's just infuriating. -- "Less is only more where more is no good." --Frank Lloyd Wright Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
