Re:The Dawn of a new Command Line Interface (2017)
by Someone on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @06:31PM
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This is different. You need communication back through the pipeline to inform the data producers what data you want.
Also, in your example ending in | xclip, xclip cannot know what format data it has to ask from dot until it gets pasted somewhere. Alternatively, it would either have to guess what format(s) the user would like to paste later or it would have to cover all bases and ask dot for output in every format it supports.
Also, in your example ending in | xclip, xclip cannot know what format data it has to ask from dot until it gets pasted somewhere. Alternatively, it would either have to guess what format(s) the user would like to paste later or it would have to cover all bases and ask dot for output in every format it supports.