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I think this was raised before (fernando and I discussed it somewhere onThe `/' would most likely have come from VMS or a precursor. VMS has [had?] a remarkably well structured (too well structured?) CLI interface (I show my heritage :-).gdb@). GDB is used on systems that are not even UNIX like (namely DJGPP), trying to tie the syntax to UNIX is such a good idea. GDB needs a syntax spec, the current piece meal aproach is regrettable :-(
If the command was called ``log'' rather than ``tee'' then I don't think we would have problems with ``log -a''. (I'm not saying that log is the right name mind.)
Well, I find the DOS-ish '/' separator much nastier than '-' options.
Or `log/a FILE [COMMAND]' or, hmm, something like:A question of personal taste. ``log'' unfortunately is more like ``tee'' than it is like redirection; how about a simple ``redirect'' command? redirect [-a[ppend]] FILE [COMMAND] log [-a[ppend]] FILE [COMMAND]
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