begin  quoting Lan Barnes as of Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 11:12:58AM -0700:
> 
[chop]
> <grumble> but whatever happened to the *nix tradition of "return silently
> on success"?

Too small a demographic appreciates that simplicity.

Everyone else is used to computer systems that silently freeze up and
hang.  Chatty status messages give a warm fuzzy that the system hasn't
crashed yet.

For your purposes, I'm thinking about it... what if we had a wrapper
program?

sense [ -<pattern> <filename> [ -<pattern> <filename> ]* ] <program> <args>

e.g.,

% sense -^Error: error.log -^Warning: warn.fifo lan_program foo bar baz

-- 
Use regex to create as many streams as you'd like.
Stewart Stremler


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