FreeTDS Development Group

["James K. Lowden" <jklowden AT schemamania.org>]

Brian Bruns <brian.bruns AT gmail.com> wrote:
> Any particular reason for capital F?  lowercase -f in standard for
> input file on many (most?) unix programs (sed, awk, tar, etc...), I'd
> like to follow the convention.  

Carlo, thanks for the patch.  Would you be willing to redo it slightly? 
(Nothing like punishing a good deed, I know.)

This already works:

        tsql {options} < script.sql

You propose:

        tsql {options} -F script.sql

Brian:

        tsql {options} -f script.sql

I:
        tsql {options} script.sql

Cf. more(1), sh(1), et. al.  ;-)

sed & Co. accept -f as a command file, and filenames as data files.  tsql
doesn't act on a data file; I would say it's more similar to /bin/sh.  

I'll tell you what.  If you'll do that for tsql, I'll change bsqldb to be
consistent.  (bsqldb currently uses -i, like isql.)

Regards, 

--jkl