[Box Backup] machinereadble output bbackupquery - help needed

Torsten boxbackup at boxbackup.org
Fri Oct 17 09:35:51 BST 2008


AMAZING, thank you chris and jamesog for your help. It works beautiful.

Am Friday 17 October 2008 01:16:51 schrieb Chris Wilson: 
> Hi Torsten,
>
> On Thu, 16 Oct 2008, Torsten wrote:
> > I tried to change box backup to have an machine reabable option
> > for 'bbackupqery usage quit'.
> >
> > It is well  prepared because FormatUsageLineStart() and FormatUsageBar()
> > have already an option for this.
> >
> > The problem is the command line option for bbackupquery. I do not know
> > how to exactly handle this. The attached patch does not really work, it
> > only shows where i changed the source.
> >
> > Is it possible to add such a function into the trunk? Can anybody help
> > with this?
>
> Thanks for the suggestion. I've implemented it in a slightly different
> way, adding a "-m" option to the usage command, so you should be able to
> use a command like this:
>
> 	bbackupquery "usage -m" quit
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Cheers, Chris.



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