FreeTDS Development Group

[Brian Bruns <brian.bruns AT gmail.com>]

On second thought, I'll throw my vote to -i...we tend to track
isql/sqsh options and it's a good point about header/footer.

Brian


On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 09:18:31 -0500, James K. Lowden
<jklowden AT schemamania.org> wrote:
> 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
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