Re: [RFC] Move all btrfs command to only one command

[Andreas Philipp <philipp.andreas@gmail.com>]

  On 20.08.2010 20:27, Josh Berry wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 05:03, Goffredo Baroncelli<kreijack@gmail.com>  wrote:
>> On Thursday, 19 August, 2010, James Smith wrote:
>>> This patch randomizes the error codes and also fixes up some typos
>> including
>>> capitalization in the output.
>>>
>>> It would almost be nice to see a translation effort for the tool as well.
> [...]
>> +                       fprintf(stderr, "ERR-A.11: in command '");
>>
>> I am not against this kind of error codes, but I prefer
>>
>> +                       fprintf(stderr, "Error 'ERR-A.11' in command '");
> As a layman/end user, I disagree.  The former format is easier for
> shell scripts and the like to parse -- the error code can be extracted
> with a simple "cut -d: -f1".
This makes no difference. A simple `cut -d " " -f1` would do the job in 
the second case.
Andreas
> (In fact, I wish the output from things like "btrfs filesystem df",
> "show", etc. were easier to parse, but that's a separate issue. :) )
>
> -- Josh
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