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Re: write format

From: Ming Zhang <mingz_at_ele.uri.edu>
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 08:01:36 -0400

On Fri, 2005-06-24 at 07:21 +0200, Daniel Stenberg wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Jun 2005, Ming Zhang wrote:
>
> > the nothing will come out since -s kill the regular output and -w goes to
> > stdout!
> >
> > i am think if the -w is specified, should this goto stderr as same as the
> > normal print which can be turn off by -s? (i did not read the code but a
> > 2>/dev/null confirm my guess)
>
> Perhaps it should've done that from the start but I'd rather not do that now
> since it'll break all existing scripts that use this feature.
>
> I instead added the fact that it writes to stdout to the -w description of the
> man page.
>
ic. legacy problem. :) yes, add to manpage to make it clear is a way. i
assumed them print to same pipe at beginning.

ming

Received on 2005-06-24