On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 11:34, Andreas Philipp <[email protected]> wrote: > On 20.08.2010 20:27, Josh Berry wrote: >> >> On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 05:03, Goffredo Baroncelli<[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> >>> On Thursday, 19 August, 2010, James Smith wrote: >>>> >>>> This patch randomizes the error codes and also fixes up some typos >>> >>> including >>>> >>>> capitalization in the output. >>>> >>>> It would almost be nice to see a translation effort for the tool as >>>> well. >> >> [...] >>> >>> + fprintf(stderr, "ERR-A.11: in command '"); >>> >>> I am not against this kind of error codes, but I prefer >>> >>> + fprintf(stderr, "Error 'ERR-A.11' in command '"); >> >> As a layman/end user, I disagree. The former format is easier for >> shell scripts and the like to parse -- the error code can be extracted >> with a simple "cut -d: -f1". > > This makes no difference. A simple `cut -d " " -f1` would do the job in the > second case.
I think you meant -f2, and that still leaves the quotes hanging around. So you'd need to cut -d" " -f2 |tr -d "'" . It's not a big deal either way, I just think the former is easier to work with. -- Josh -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
