Re: [Evms-devel] Snapshots in batch... Another one

[Frank L. <len...@pa...>]

on Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 11:57:48PM +0100, Michel Bouissou wrote about Re: [=
Evms-devel] Snapshots in batch... Another one:
> Le Samedi 30 Novembre 2002 23:38, Kevin Corry a =E9crit :
> >
> > Hmm....you've kind of come up with a unique way to write CLI scripts. T=
he
> > CLI is currently written to allow commands to be specified in a
> > command-file, and run the commands in that file using the "-f" options.
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> Yes, I've seen that this "command file" option exists, but I wanted to ke=
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> simple and didn't want to use separate files just for executing a couple =
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> commands in my script.

When using here documents, you really have to simulate what you would
do interactively. This has nothing to do with the evms interpreter
itself, it is a shell issue.

> So I preferred to embed the EVMS commands in the script itself.
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> Maybe a "--batch" option or the like could be added to the command-line=
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> client, to tell it not to ask any questions and just process the commands=
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> receives in similar situations.

I don't think this is necessary, as you have the -f option as Kevin suggest=
ed.

> Regards.

cu,

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> Michel Bouissou <mi...@bo...> OpenPGP ID 0xDDE8AC6E

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