Re: [gentoo-user] Piping "emerge -a" to some other command

[Rich Freeman]

On Thu, Feb 24, 2022 at 6:47 AM Dr Rainer Woitok
<rainer.woitok@×××××.com> wrote:
>
> since the output of "emerge -a" might be long, and since on a stock con-
> sole you cannot scroll,  I had the idea of piping it into "tee",  and in
> case I'm unsure  just to say  "No"  to the question  of whether or not I
> would like to merge these packages and then to inspect the "emerge" out-
> put more closely using an editor.

Wouldn't it be more appropriate to use -p in this case, which will
require no input?

I haven't dug into the man page, but I'm sure there are also options
that are more intended to make the output more suitable for
parsing/etc.

-- 
Rich