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Log progress and errors to a /tmp/laptop.log file #83
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Re: printing nothing to I think that since this script takes a while, if the user sees the script in progress for that long and nothing is printed to Re: logging Logs being left without consent has always been a pet peeve of mine, and I'm sure I'm not the only one that feels that way. However, your As an alternative, what about adding something in the
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Copying my response from #82 .
To take "don't be chatty" to the extreme, piping the output of all the commands to The way this follow-up commit goes, it's hard to tell which parts of the stream belong to which process. This may not be an issue if you're just running it and walking away, but if you log it ( To take "don't be chatty" to a moderate level, what @djcp did in the linux files was actually pretty neat: use a |
I like the idea of outputting to |
Rather than adding a bunch of noise to the script to execute each command with redirected output, I would vote for an update to the README letting a user know how to do that if they want or we ask (i.e. for troubleshooting).
Would output everything to |
On Tuesday, November 26, 2013 at 1:59 PM, patrick brisbin wrote:
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Done in #256 |
Thinking about making the script output nothing to
stdout
but log its progress to a log file for debugging and an easy thing for users to paste into GitHub Issues.The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: