On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 11:09 PM, Brian Desmond <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Turns out tab delimited is an undocumented (not in adfind
>> advanced help /??) “\t” switch.
>
> \t is the control code for a tab. If all you’re doing is passing–csvdelim
> “\t”, then I’d say it’s perfectly documented.
Well, the documentation for the "-csvdelim" just says "Delimiter to
use for separating attributes in CSV output, default (,)." I don't
find any discussion of control character syntax; the docs never
mention that backslash has any special meaning. "\t" is by no means
universal or automatic; programs have to implement it explicitly. The
user has no way of knowing that. Other syntax might be used (^T for
example), or none at all.
However, six lines previous in the documentation, this is given:
-jtsv Combines -csv -csvdelim \t -csvmvdelim |
So it gets used in an example. But you'd have to know to go to look
for it, or happen to notice it, or read every single line, to know
that "\t" means something special. And we still don't know if, say,
"\n" or "\f" might also be interpreted specially.
So I wouldn't call it "undocumented", but I wouldn't call it
"perfectly documented", either. :)
(Reference: http://www.joeware.net/freetools/tools/adfind/usage.htm)
-- Ben
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