Eric Wong writes:

> "maildir:/path/to/dir" has been supported by public-inbox-watch
> for years, now.
>
> The following all work today:
>
>       lei q -o mboxrd:/tmp/foo.mboxrd ...
>       lei q -o mboxcl2:/tmp/foo.mboxcl2 ...
>       lei q -o maildir:/tmp/foo/ ...
>
> So -f/--format seems redundant.

I find "<format>:<destination>" pretty natural/intuitive, even if
perhaps the stdout case (e.g., "mboxrd:-" or "concatjson:-") looks a bit
odd.  Dropping --format makes sense to me.

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