On Thursday 18 May 2006 19:52, Vincent Danen wrote: > And it's also extremely long. I often do things like "foo --help > 2>&1|grep something" in order to find the option I'm looking for (ie. i > might like to do "exim --help 2>&1|grep queue" to find out all the > options to manipulate the queue).
PAGER=cat man exim | grep whatever. Or simply /whatever if you use a PAGER such as less, and then you have context. > The fact that all exim tells me is "options and/or arguments control > what it does when it is called" is... well... painfully obvious without > being helpful at all. Would you really want hundreds of lines of --help output? Some of the Gentoo portage commands do this, and I find it irritating. Simple fact is, exim has many many options. -- Casey Allen Shobe | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 206-381-2800 SeattleServer.com, Inc. | http://www.seattleserver.com -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
