Verbose output (was: perl patch 18 makes perl uncompilable)

[Bob Page]

mohamed at hscfvax.harvard.edu (Mohamed_el_Lozy) wrote:
>more in the UNIX tradition would be no message at all unless it failed.

Back when we only had top speed 300 baud terminals, this was a good
thing.  Now, it's a good thing when you have filters and scripts
running.  But for the average non-batch command on 19.2 terminals and
dedicated workstations, this isn't such a good thing.  You don't ever
patch programs within a shell script, right?  Or have patch as part of
a pipeline...let it be verbose.

More designers of UNIX tools should note this.

Oh, and       patch args | tee patch.out | less      doesn't count.

..Bob
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