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Re: [Bug-tar] Colorized output for GNU tar discussion
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Tim Kientzle |
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Re: [Bug-tar] Colorized output for GNU tar discussion |
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Mon, 6 May 2013 08:56:13 -0700 |
On May 6, 2013, at 6:46 AM, Marek Kielar wrote:
> Colorizations made using piping to external tools suffer from lack of
> semantic information about the output. Take colordiff for example - in many
> places it parses (regex's) the output hoping it does The Good Thing, but
> still its just hoping (and fails sometimes).
>
> If there was an output version that was semantically complete (e.g. some kind
> of markup on normal output) for automatic interpretation, it would always be
> easy to achieve colorization (and other mangling) through external tools. It
> would also make those tools way simpler, since they would just re-interpret
> and not heuristically regex through the human-readable output. Moreover, in
> such case, there would be no problems with signaling etc.
So you are basically suggesting that tar have an XML/json/yaml/etc
output format so that external tools can robustly utilize the data.
(E.g., format it, present it in a GUI, etc.)
Tim