🚀 go-pugleaf

Mr. etxmesa@eos.ericsson.se (Michael Salmon) writes:
> I have seen very many flexible solutions to problems, many of them
> were even good solutions, for a while at least. The usual result is
> that some time in the future the flexible solution breaks and someone
> has to do it right.

Mr. Tom Christiansen <tchrist@convex.COM> writes:

> Hacking on source is almost always a solution that will come back to
> haunt you.  Sometimes things are so broken you have to fix them, but
> if you just want to munge the output, heroic measures are overkill.

Hm.  Okay, maybe we look at it differently.  I find modifying source
to suit my particular need and then saving another version faster and
*much* easier and more understandable for the future than writing
wrappers that *should* *usually* work.  I don't have to remember to
wrap the stuff as I use it because it does exactly what I want.  
I don't consider it a heroic solution, I consider it an easy one. 

Maybe that would appeal to you more then:

Add one more option, say, "-h" for "header non-sortable", make it
FALSE by default, TRUE if invoked, and change

printf("%s COMMAND\n", hdr);

to

if(hdr_non_sort)
        fprintf(stderr, "%s COMMAND\n", hdr);
else
        fprintf(stdout, "%s COMMAND\n", hdr);

It shouldn't take longer than 10-15 minutes to have it completely
implemented.  Isn't it simpler than writing wrappers and remembering
what needs to be piped through what?  No functionality is lost, some
is added. 

t.

Ps.: I am too agreeable, I know, don't feel quite myself today...