[GRASS-dev] r.info -g

[Brad Douglas]

I also agree.  Output everything in a machine readable format that isn't
visually difficult to navigate.  It's only a few lines of information at
the most.  However, it may be beneficial to some to have '-r' remain
separate (may break user scripts?).

On Mon, 2006-09-04 at 00:28 -0700, Michael Barton wrote:
> I very much agree. This the very thing I was posting about yesterday.
> 
> Michael
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> 
> > From: Martin Landa <landa.martin at gmail.com>
> > Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2006 23:41:59 +0200
> > To: grass-dev <grass-dev at grass.itc.it>
> > Subject: [GRASS-dev] r.info -g
> > 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > r.info module has a lot of flags [1] which print *given* information
> > to stdout. From my point of view it would be better (maybe) to have
> > only *one* flag for this purpose, e.g.
> > 
> >   -g   Print basic information in shell script style
> > 
> > What do you think about it? It should not break any scripts in CVS
> > tree (maybe Add-ons?). Sure, it is not a good way -- to break backward
> > compatibility... on the other hand, just adding new flag -g is not
> > also nice solution.
> > 
> > Best, Martin
> > 
> > [1]
> >   -r   Print range only
> >   -s   Print raster map resolution (NS-res, EW-res) only
> >   -t   Print raster map type only
> >   -g   Print raster map region only
> > 
> > -- 
> > Martin Landa <landa.martin at gmail.com> * http://gama.fsv.cvut.cz/~landa *


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