--only/--quiet/… option for hyp create

[Treora]

For use in shell scripts or to pipe hyp’s output into other commands, it would be practical to have an option to only get the address of the created drive/bee from hyp create. Example output, currently:

> hyp create drive
Drive Created: hyper://87f05a94b1916674fb00d4cf4da0ed3ae9d9491ebd706afbb01e2a83332f4a4e
Seeding hyperdrive

The line containing the address appears to be output via stderr, not stdout, so currently some juggling like this is required to read only the hyper://… address:

hyp create drive 2>&1 | grep -oE "hyper://\w+"

An -o/--only option (like grep) or -q/--quiet option (like many tools) that makes hyp output only the hyper://… url could be helpful.

[ghost]

grep -oE "hyper://\w+"

depending on distro/version this is might not produce expected result,

grep -Eoe 'hyper://[0-9a-z]+' is more universal solution

[ghost]

i can see the value for --only, but would --quiet option be usable in any way within context of the cli?

it will create new empty drive with unknown address and start seeding.. emptiness?
like, its a cute metaphor, but not very actionable

[Treora]

i can see the value for --only, but would --quiet option be usable in any way within context of the cli?

I suggested the two as alternative names for this option, not as two different options. Like with some other software, a single --quiet need not be completely silent (I’ve seen programs that hush all output if multiple -qs are passed).

[ghost]

multiple -qs are passed

it's probably not entirely universal either:

$ docker ps -a -q
0169d163346e
$ docker ps -a
CONTAINER ID   IMAGE               COMMAND   CREATED          STATUS                    PORTS                                                                                                                                                                                                                 NAMES
0169d163346e   analogic/poste.io   "/init"   18 minutes ago   Up 18 minutes (healthy)   110/tcp, 143/tcp, 465/tcp, 0.0.0.0:25->25/tcp, :::25->25/tcp, 587/tcp, 995/tcp, 0.0.0.0:993->993/tcp, :::993->993/tcp, 4190/tcp, 0.0.0.0:12080->80/tcp, :::12080->80/tcp, 0.0.0.0:12443->443/tcp, :::12443->443/tcp   mailserver
$ docker ps -q
0169d163346e
$ docker ps -qq
0169d163346e
$ docker ps -q -q
0169d163346e
$ docker ps -qqq
0169d163346e
$ docker ps -q -q -q
0169d163346e