hal-get-property bug or usage misunderstanding?

[Behdad Esfahbod]

On Sat, 19 Jun 2004, David Zeuthen wrote:

> Yeah, this is actually intentional, the only thing that goes to stdout
> is the value of the property, all the rest go to stderr. This is so
> people can get away with doing a FOO=`hal-get-property -udi blah -key
> boo`.

Quoting man bash:


       Command substitution allows the output of a command to replace the com-
       mand name.  There are two forms:


              $(command)
       or
              ‘command‘

       Bash performs the expansion by executing command and replacing the com-
       mand  substitution  with  the  standard output of the command, with any
       trailing newlines deleted.  Embedded newlines are not deleted, but they
       may  be  removed during word splitting.


> But, yeah there should probably be a manpage stating all this; with time
> we'll have one :-)
>
> Cheers,
> David

--behdad
  behdad.org

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