On Thu, May 30, 2019 at 09:09:58PM +0200, Marc Espie wrote: > On Thu, May 30, 2019 at 07:29:55PM +0100, Jason McIntyre wrote: > > i think any of man page, manual page, or manual is fine. > > > > > 2. Standard output > > > > > > Is it: > > > Print to standard output/error > > > tee(1) > > > Print to the standard output/error > > > cat(1), echo(1) > > > Print to stdout/stderr > > > bzcat(1) > > > > > > > these are all fine, i think. > > IMO, these are highly contextual. >
agreed. > "End user commands" will tend to say standard output or error. > > stdout and stderr *are* programmer's idioms, so I would be surprised > to see them in less technical commands. > i'm pretty sure you'll find stdout/stderr scattered all over userland docs. the post itself quoted bzcat. i don;t think we can (or should) attempt to police this. jmc
