On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, George Adams wrote:
> I was almost sure that any command-line options or alternate configuration file
>(i.e. `analog +g/tmp/myconfig.txt`) would override the global (non-mandatory)
>"analog.cfg". I based that on the fact that the global analog.cfg contains
> HOSTNAME "[my organisation]"
> but if I put
> HOSTNAME "David's Stuff"
> in /tmp/myconfig.txt, then run `analog +g/tmp/myconfig.txt`, the final output uses
>"David's Stuff" as its hostname.
>
> But today I was trying to get the UNCOMPRESS feature to work, by putting
> UNCOMPRESS *.gz "/usr/gnubin/gunzip -c"
> in /tmp/myconfig.txt, then running `analog +g/tmp/myconfig.txt` as usual.
> [...]
>
> and yet it was 'gzip -cd' that took precedence when I tried to analyze
> gzip'ed logfiles.
>
> Again, it was easy enough for me to change analog.cfg , but is this the
> way analog is *supposed* to behave?
>
Yes. The difference is that you can have only one HOSTNAME command, so it
overrides earlier ones. But you can have several UNCOMPRESS commands, so
they accumulate. docs/syntax.html puts it like this:
> Generally later commands override earlier ones if you can have only one of
> that thing (e.g., for the OUTFILE), or supplement them if you can have
> several (e.g., for the LOGFILE, because you can read several logfiles).
(I can see you were thinking that you could only have one "UNCOMPRESS *.gz".
But it's the fact that you can have several UNCOMPRESSes that is relevant.)
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