[GRASS-dev] g.search.module: shell style output

[Jachym Cepicky]

Hi,

no special reason for not listing the module description too, just did not
came to my mind

Just do it [1]

J

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXsQAXx_ao0

čt 18. 8. 2016 v 20:32 odesílatel Vaclav Petras <wenzeslaus at gmail.com>
napsal:

> Hi Jachym,
>
> the g.search.module -g flag (shell style output) outputs just names. Do
> you have a particular reason for it? My use case is something like that:
>
> g.search.modules keyword="support" -g | sed -e "s/|[^|]*$//g" | sed -e
> "s/|/\t/g"
>
> with the following desired output (name + keywords, description removed by
> sed):
>
> g.version    general,support,citing,copyright,version,license
> t.support    temporal,metadata,time
> r.support    raster,metadata
> r.support.stats    raster,statistics
> r.out.gdal    raster,export
> v.out.ogr    vector,export,OGR
> r3.support    raster3d,metadata,voxel
> g.findetc    general,map management,scripts
> v.external    vector,import,external,OGR,PostGIS
> g.message    general,support,scripts
> g.tempfile    general,support,scripts
> v.support    vector,metadata
> r.external    raster,import,external
>
> I can actually see that outputting just module names can be advantageous
> in some cases. But I want to get something like, so I can throw sed and
> grep on it:
>
> v.support|vector,metadata|Updates vector map metadata.
>
> If we permit change of the interface, I think -g could do the output
> above. This would make the -g output more like the others: same information
> as by default and with -j, so we can even consider it fixing a bug.
>
> The current output with -g can be generated with some other flag. -n* for
> "names only" perhaps?
>
> Best,
> Vaclav
>
> * https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-dev/2016-August/081556.html
>
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