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From: Yngve Svendsen <yngve.svendsen@sun.com>
To: gnats-prs@gnu.org, duncan.lindley@computershare.com.au,
	pdm-gnats@zamazal.org
Subject: Re: gnats/400: query-pr "printf string" format functionality does not behave as expected
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 14:46:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.2.20020924234501.042b1af8@clustra.norway.sun.com> (raw)

At Sun Jul 21 23:43:51 -0400 2002, Duncan Lindley wrote:
>Documentation is thin..
>this is a normal query
>bash-2.05a$ query-pr --format summary -d gnats-sandpit 
>--state="open|analyzed|feedback|suspended|moderate|test" --category=test-1
>2 gnats-ad test-1 open non-criti low computersh index broke
>5 Duncan_L test-1 open non-criti low computersh my adsl router arrived
>7 gnats-ad test-1 open critical high computersh Attaching a bmp
>
>This is how i read the docco.. mabye i am wrong
>bash-2.05a$ query-pr --format "%s %s %s" State Originator Responsible -d 
>gnats-sandpit --state="open|analyzed|feedback|suspended|moderate|test" 
>--category=test-1
>query-pr: Invalid field name or query format %s
>
>and this seems to work but doesnt return results
>bash-2.05a$ query-pr --format Responsible "%F" -d gnats-sandpit 
>--state="open|analyzed|feedback|suspended|moderate|test" --category=test-1
>query-pr: no PRs matched

Ouch. The docs are wrong. The whole format expression needs to be quoted, 
like this:

query-pr --format '"%s %s %s" State Originator Responsible'



Yngve Svendsen



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