Re: the new "-c" option of ifile-1.0.6
Jason Rennie <[email protected]>
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[email protected] said: > Sorry for the late answer, some halfwit UPS has been giving me fits. > Jason, do you want replies cc'd to you, or just sent directly to > ifile-discuss? ifile-discuss is best. I read that like regular e-mail; posting there means that everyone gets to hear what we're talking about (which is a good thing :) [email protected] said: > I thought 'Q' was already taken, which was why I picked 'c'. > ifile --help reports: I think my earlier e-mail was unclear. Clemens likes to use the -Q option instead of the -q option when filtering e-mails. I wanted to know if you'd mind us changing the -c option from ifile -v 0 -h -q | head -1 | cut -f1 -d' ' to ifile -v 0 -h -Q | head -1 | cut -f1 -d' ' In the end, we decided it was best just to have the user specify whether he wants -q or -Q. So, with 1.0.7, -c requires either -q or -Q. i.e. "ifile -c -q" translates to "ifile -v 0 -h -q | head -1 | cut -f1 -d' '" "ifile -c -Q" translates to "ifile -v 0 -h -Q | head -1 | cut -f1 -d' '" "ifile -c" reports an error message and aborts Jason D. M. Rennie MIT AI Lab [email protected] (617) 253-5339 http://www.ai.mit.edu/~jrennie/