[HEADS-UP] systemd for F14 - the next steps

[Toshio Kuratomi]

On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 01:39:06PM -0800, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 12:17 PM, Horst H. von Brand
> <vonbrand at inf.utfsm.cl> wrote:
> > Great to know about that. And yes, it  is extremely relevant for a sysadmin
> > to know how to tickle the system so it spits out awk(1)-able logs and stuff.
> 
> 
> Hmm... can these tools learn to prefer a certain format when they are
> piped into another program and then prefer a different format when
> they are just outputting to an active console. And then the preferred
> behaviour can be overridden when specific commandline arguments are
> present?  Don't other tools exhibit this sort of functionality?
> 
> foo show | awk    would assume one line awkable output
> foo show            would assume human readable
> foo show -1         would force one line awkable output
> foo show -v | awk         would force human readable into awk
> 
> or some such.
> 
Please don't.

/me thinks of python-2.x which treats printing utf8 different when it goes
to the console vs being redirected.

-Toshio
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