birdc: using command output in scripts

[Ondrej Zajicek]

On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 11:26:23AM +0400, Alexander V. Chernikov wrote:
> Hello list!
>
> It is more or less useful to see 'BIRD X.X.X ready.' after cli starts.
>
> However, birdc is sometimes used in non-interactive way (like 'birdc  
> configure' or 'birdc show route table XXXX for YYY'). Getting such  
> string (in STDOUT, as other data) with command output is inconvenient.
>
> This behavior can be fixed with very trivial patch. Can someone consider  
> getting it added to the tree?

Yes, this is a good idea. But as everybody who already uses birdc
non-interactively probably skips the first line, i would merge it with
the next major release.

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