curl-users
RE: patch to print version info on stderr
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 14:24:52 -0700
On Tue Sep 16, 2003 @ 2:03P Gisle Vanem wrote:
> "David Byron" said:
>
> > Please consider this patch to print version info on stderr,
> > and to make it possible to redirect this to a file. I'm
> > working in Windows land and it's a bit of struggle to deal
> > with redirecting output, etc. without this. With this
> > patch
> >
> > $ curl --stderr foo --version
>
> IMHO this is a kludge. Do we really need more cmdline
> parameters?
I haven't added any command line parameters. --stderr was already there.
All I did was send the output of --version there.
> curl --version 2> foo
>
> (stderr is handle 2 remember). Works on cmd and 4nt shells.
Before my patch, you'd need to redirect stdout since that's where --version
sent it's output.
All the best,
-DB
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Received on 2003-09-16