[Radmind-devel] ra.sh suggestions

[Willie N. <wi...@um...>]

I'm starting to really like ra.sh (we're currently running 1.5.0),  
however there are some small changes I'd like to suggest.

A) can we get short forms of the ra.sh options? You know, like -u for  
update, or -f for force, etc.

B) is it possible to suppress printing the list of directories  
examined? Perhaps a -q (or quiet flag)

C) can we by default, or by another flag, get the difference  
transcript printed out to the screen, in addition to the option to  
edit the list with the editor? When I'm finished editing the  
difference transcript and close vi, those changes are no longer  
visible on the screen. This makes it more difficult to remember the  
details to effectively do an lfdiff on the pieces I had questions about.

D) It would be awesome to have a command that would automatically run  
lfdiff on every entry inside a difference transcript that exists  
already. This might be a new radmind command entirely, but I doubt it  
should be much work.

E) it would also be nice to be able to toss a flag (or do it by  
default) to delete the unused transcripts which live in /var/radmind/ 
client/  - I find myself doing this often:

     cd /var/radmind/client/
     rm -rf *
     ra.sh update
     find . -name "*transcript-name*"
     # or this:
     egrep -ri "filename" *

F) when using ra.sh -V, it prints out the current date instead of the  
radmind suite version: VERSION=`date +%Y%m%d`

Thanks! - Willie

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