Dear Steve, In message <4be2f9a3.1050...@comcast.net> you wrote: > > Now that we have tab completion within bconsole, an additional option > has come to mind which you can see in various other CLI environments > (IOS, *NIX shells): the ability to pipe the output of commands through a > various set of filters.
Yes, but the Unix way of doing things is also not to reinvent the wheel again and again and again. > I realize that I can accomplish the same thing with SQL queries or > submit bconsole commands via a shell and filtering the output, but this > still seems like it would streamline bconsole usage. Hm... why do you think a artifical extension of outputy handling in the bconsole code would be any better that a plain shell command like echo list files jobid=999 | bconsole | grep filenameImLookingFor ? It would only be duplicated code (at best), added complexity and added bugs. Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: w...@denx.de It's hard to think of you as the end result of millions of years of evolution. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
