Incodentally, I think your example is wrong. It should be either psql >/dev/null 2>&1
or psql &>/dev/null Notice the reversal of redirects in the first one. Of course, this doesn't change anything about the core discussion... - C On 1/24/08, Isaac Morland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 24 Jan 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Mike> 2. Is this really the hard-coded behavior we want? I don't think > > Mike> my use-case is that odd; in fact, what I find very odd is that > > Mike> the prompt output is send to stderr. I mean, I'm printing the > > Mike> prompt for a question, not some error message. Can there not > at > > Mike> least be an optional parameter to indicate that you want the > > Mike> output sent to stdout rather than stderr? > > > > I can think of situations where you don't want the output to go to stdout > > either (suppose it's the regular output of the file you want to save to a > > file). Having a choice seems the best route. > > What about an option (maybe even a default) to send the prompt to stdin? > > The Postgres command line interface psql appears to do this: > > $ psql 2>&1 >/dev/null > Password: > $ > > (I typed my password and then I quit by typing ^D; if I type the wrong > password, it looks the same on screen but it quits right away without > waiting for ^D) > > I think ssh also does this when it needs to prompt for a password. > > Really the prompt is part of the input, not part of the output, in a > certain sense. Have people actually verified that the prompt is really > sent to stderr right now by using 2>/dev/null to attempt to suppress it? > > Isaac Morland CSCF Web Guru > DC 2554C, x36650 WWW Software Specialist > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list > Python-Dev@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev > Unsubscribe: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/shiblon%40gmail.com > -- Sent from Gmail for mobile | mobile.google.com _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
