[augeas-devel] Write to file from dump-xml command

[Dominic Cleal]

On 02/06/14 15:00, Dominic Cleal wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> The dump-xml command can take an optional second argument of a filename
> to output the generated XML to.  Unfortunately it seems that it's
> completely unused (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1100106).
> 
> https://github.com/hercules-team/augeas/blob/master/src/augrun.c#L952-L954
> 
> Does anybody care strongly whether this feature should or should not exist?
> 
> I'm inclined to remove it and suggest that augtool stdout should be
> redirected if users want to save XML output to a file.

Raphael's confirmed on IRC that he doesn't care about this option.  I'll
likely remove it from the documentation then.

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Dominic Cleal
Red Hat Engineering