also sprach Luca Boccassi <bl...@debian.org> [2017-12-29 22:04 +0100]: > Feel free to ask for this upstream at net...@vger.kernel.org but > I strongly suspect such a change would be considered backward > incompatible, since it would probably break all the nasty screen- > scraping systems out there, so it's not likely to happen.
Oh joy. Any tool should always check for a tty on stdout and if none is found, it should randomly reformat the output unless --machine-readable is given. You know, easier said than done… ;) Thanks for following up, I guess I'll rest my case. -- .''`. martin f. krafft <madduck@d.o> @martinkrafft : :' : proud Debian developer `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduck `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing systems "this week dragged past me so slowly; the days fell on their knees..." -- david bowie
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