* Casey Allen Shobe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-05-18 20:30:54 +0000]: > > 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.
While that is true, it's also not quick... some of those paragraphs are pretty large. =) Instead of the three paragraphs I see for -bf, I'd like to see: -bf [filename] run exim in filter testing mode with filter file [filename] Something like that is much easier to grep. I mean, obviously, this output won't replace the manpage, and would be more of a summary type thing than anything else, but I can see it being very handy for things like unfreezing the queue, etc. > > 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. I don't think it would be hundreds of lines. Now I feel challenged, however.... =) I'm going to patch exim to do this and see how big it really is. -- Annvix - Secure Linux Server: http://annvix.org/ "lynx -source http://linsec.ca/vdanen.asc | gpg --import" {FEE30AD4 : 7F6C A60C 06C2 4811 FA1C A2BC 2EBC 5E32 FEE3 0AD4} Wasting time like it was free...
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