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RE: xfsdump and -v or -V?

To: Murthy Kambhampaty <Murthy.Kambhampaty@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: xfsdump and -v or -V?
From: Matteo Centonza <matteo@xxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2002 17:27:09 +0200 (CEST)
Cc: "'Stephan Austermuehle'" <au@xxxxxxx>, "Linux-Xfs (E-mail)" <linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx>
In-reply-to: <E631530D51ABD411B823009027855C5B0278DF@THOR>
Sender: owner-linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
Hi,

> Try "xfsrestore --help | more", which puts the version on the last line. For
> some odd reason "xfsrestore --help" puts the version at the top of the help
> screen but, "xfsrestore --help | more" puts it on the last line, obviating
> the need to "look through the tons of lines generated with --help". Maybe
> these SGI programmers are deceptively good at user interface design :), as
> well as at engineering this really high-performance filesystem.
>       Murthy

that's because the version number is sent to stderr (and the usage to 
stdout); Try this one:

xfsrestore --help 2>/dev/null

Ciao,

-m


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