Re: [PATCH] Easier to read multi-line properties in proplist and propget

Ivan Zhakov wrote:
> 2008/8/14 Julian Foad <julianfoad_at_btopenworld.com>:
>> I would like to know people's views on whether either or both of these
>> changes are a good idea, backward compatibility concerns, whether these
>> changes should be optional (like with "propget --verbose") or the
>> default, etc.
>>
> I like new format and --verbose option for proplist.

(You mean 'propget' -- proplist already has a --verbose option.)

Julian, does your proposal/patch continue to handle the --strict option to
propget correctly? --strict causes byte-for-byte spewing of the property
values, without associated filenames, character transcoding, etc.

(Actually, come to think of it, --strict *should* today raise an error if
used with more than one target, but it doesn't. It just concatenates the
multiple property values in the output stream.)

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