Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Command line (convert) parameter(s)

On 2011-06-27, Stephan Zietsman wrote:

> Tom wrote:
> > I think on Windows you can "pipe" commands although it's a bit different from
> > gnu&linux or bsd.  I htink there is a way of piping output into a text-file but
> > i don't know how.  This might work tho
> >
> > soffice.exe -? | more
>
> The "|more" option does work when listing help for other types of
> commands (such as "help |more"), but unfortunately it doesn't work in
> this case.  The main difference in this case is that the help text is
> not echoed to the prompt (terminal), but it is rather displayed in a
> message pop-up, which truncates (cuts off) the text at some point.

According to the code, only UNIX systems get the help text written to
the console. Everything else gets a dialog box.

,----[desktop/source/app/cmdlinehelp.cxx, line 154]
| #ifdef UNX
|         // on unix use console for output
|         fprintf(stdout, "%s%s",
| [...]
| #else
|         // rest gets a dialog box
|         CmdlineHelpDialog aDlg;
`----

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Nuno J. Silva (aka njsg)
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