Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2019 08:21:21 -0600 From: Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org> To: Gordon Bergling <gbergling@gmail.com>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: uname -a default options Message-ID: <7d1f88943c0b744920d7181df51b76675d145f18.camel@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <C79F935A-8D52-415A-AD2D-2F7A85406F98@gmail.com> References: <C79F935A-8D52-415A-AD2D-2F7A85406F98@gmail.com>
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On Sat, 2019-08-17 at 15:08 +0200, Gordon Bergling wrote: > Hello List, > > "uname -a" is currently mapping the -a option to „-mnrsv“, which > results in something similar like > > $ uname -a > FreeBSD lion.0xfce3.net <http://lion.0xfce3.net/>; 12.0-STABLE FreeBSD > 12.0-STABLE r350835 GENERIC amd64 > > What would you think about reducing the option mapping for „-a“ to „- > vmn“ , which would result in a less repetitive version string like > the one below. > > $ uname -vmn > lion.0xfce3.net <http://lion.0xfce3.net/>; FreeBSD 12.0-STABLE r350835 > GENERIC amd64 > > Adapting this would be trivial, but before I hack something together, > I would like to get some feedback if such a change would be welcomed? > > Best regards, > > Gordon > I think there are likely very many existing scripts in the world that parse the output of uname -a and would break if the fields moved around or disappeared. -- Ian
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