On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 1:55 PM, Lennart Poettering
<mzerqung(a)0pointer.de> wrote:
> I'd like to discuss the behaviour of systemctl. See RH bug
713567 for context. To summarise:
>
> - 'systemctl --all' pages by default when the output is to tty. This
> consumes 50-60+ lines of potentially bug-prone code, and irks the
> crap out of me as a system administrator. systemctl's jurisdiction
> ends at stdout.
Well, I think in genreal the autopaging behaviour of git and other tools
is very much appreciated. If you hate that behaviour then you are
probably in the minority, and we have to agree to disagree on the
benefits of this behaviour.
While much of "The UNIX way" is folklore, some conventions for the
(GNU/)Linux platform actually exist and have been explicitly
documented, and they haven't disappeared only because git happens to
ignore some of them. (info standards 'Program behavior' 'User
Interfaces')
Mirek