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Re: dealing with verbose programs
From: |
Jim Meyering |
Subject: |
Re: dealing with verbose programs |
Date: |
Wed, 05 Sep 2007 17:55:23 +0200 |
Ben Pfaff <address@hidden> wrote:
> Jim Meyering <address@hidden> writes:
>> Ben Pfaff <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> Jim Meyering <address@hidden> writes:
>>>> Ha! I wrote the following a few weeks ago, thinking some day
>>>> I'd write something more involved. I'm not very happy with it,
>>>> because, at least with coreutils, it runs for too long without
>>>> giving any progress indicator.
>>>
>>> You could use "tee" to display the program's output as it runs,
>>> then append the diff when it has completed.
>>
>> Yes, but the point of my exercise was to avoid the voluminous output.
>
> I guess I misunderstood: I assumed that the point was to make the
> changes obvious. By repeating the changes at the end of the run,
> it is possible to draw attention to them, even if it doesn't
> reduce the volume of the output.
Ok. "one" of the points :-)
> I suppose that one could provide some kind of progress feedback
> by printing a "." for each line as it is output.
Yep. As the comments suggested, I'll do something like that, eventually.
- Re: new module 'calloc-posix', (continued)
- Re: new module 'calloc-posix', Jim Meyering, 2007/09/04
- Re: new module 'calloc-posix', Karl Berry, 2007/09/04
- Re: dealing with verbose programs (was: Re: new module 'calloc-posix'), Bruno Haible, 2007/09/04
- Re: dealing with verbose programs, Jim Meyering, 2007/09/05
- Re: dealing with verbose programs, Ben Pfaff, 2007/09/05
- Re: dealing with verbose programs, Jim Meyering, 2007/09/05
- Re: dealing with verbose programs, Ben Pfaff, 2007/09/05
- Re: dealing with verbose programs,
Jim Meyering <=
- Re: dealing with verbose programs, Bruno Haible, 2007/09/05
gnulib-tool: new options --verbose, --quiet, Bruno Haible, 2007/09/09
gnulib-tool: new option --extract-notice, Bruno Haible, 2007/09/09
new modules 'malloc-posix', 'realloc-posix', 'calloc-posix', Bruno Haible, 2007/09/09