From: ori@eigenstate.org
To: 9front@9front.org
Subject: Re: [9front] [PATCH] hget: file name detection
Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2022 17:53:08 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <D792FBD6143A298C1B41745C0A150F3D@eigenstate.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C059A8A5-0774-4EE3-A197-499C09F88B66@musolino.id.au>
Quoth Alex Musolino <alex@musolino.id.au>:
> > take a look at RFC6266 for the filename param; we should probably use that
> > if it is present.
>
> I think that would just create more problems. Now the target filename is hidden. You’d have to print out the name of the file it wrote for it to be available for further manipulation in a script, say.
>
> Furthermore, what happens if the destination already exists? You can’t just overwrite it.
>
> I think this -a may just be a bad idea. If you want to do this kind of thing in the privacy of your own $home it shouldn’t be hard to create a wrapper script that does whatever you want.
consider me convinced.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-10-16 21:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-10-15 21:07 Alex Musolino
2022-10-15 21:10 ` Alex Musolino
2022-10-15 22:51 ` ori
2022-10-16 19:59 ` Alex Musolino
2022-10-16 21:53 ` ori [this message]
2022-10-16 6:00 ` mkf9
2022-10-16 20:02 ` Alex Musolino
2022-10-16 20:17 ` Stanley Lieber
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2022-10-11 19:11 mkf9
2022-10-11 20:39 ` Alex Musolino
2022-10-12 2:50 ` mkf9
2022-10-12 4:32 ` unobe
2022-10-12 11:31 ` umbraticus
2022-10-12 22:01 ` mkf9
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