On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 06:31:18AM BST, Thomas Perl wrote: > Actually, you can simply get rid of these error messages by redirecting > stdout in the crontab, e.g.: > > 5 0 * * * gpo update >/dev/null
I know how to redirect STDOUT, thanks ;^) > I consider this easier than having an additional "quiet" option. It also > works for all options, and doesn't need any code changes. Therefore > (with the current request) I consider this a WONTFIX. If there's > something that can't be done with input redirection, please tell me. I agree, it's easier for you and me, I was simply thinking about people who are new to unix-like OSs, don't know anything about stream redirection, yet they use gPodder and just heard of this thing called cron and would like to use it to download new podcasts. As I've mentioned earlier, "podget" has "-s" option which is explicitly mentioned in the manual as "for cron jobs". Most of the programs I use have both "verbose" and "quiet" options. gPodder does have "-v/--verbose". Using both as examples and analogies I simply thought "it would be nice to have" the "quiet/silent" option. > If it was not clear to you, maybe you can provide some documentation > additions as a patch to the README file or "gpo" manual page? I'd really > appreciate that, especially the manpage could be improved here. > > See http://github.com/gpodder/gpodder for the Git repository of gPodder, > against which patches should be submitted. Will look into it. At the moment I'm evaluating several command line podcast downloaders, gPodder, podget being just a few. I'd like to settle on one eventually - ability to use it from cron is just one of the criteria. I'd also like to recommend it to people who might be starting their journey with a form of *nix and are not technically savvy and gPodder fits here really nicely here with all its features: i.e. both GUI and CLI (+interactive one), gpodder.net, multi-platform, hooks, etc. Thanks for all your work and a prompt reply. Regards, -- Raf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
