Hi,

this might me my confussion regarding the proper behaviour of a unix program in terms of what gets sent to stdout and what gets sent to stderr, but I would prefer that

$ csound -odac --get-system-sr

would output the samplerate to stdout and all the other information and warnings to stderr, instead of the current behaviour, which is to send everything to stderr.

Then it would not be necessary to parse all the warnings and other information in stderr to fish for the desired data, which is possible but feels somewhat fragile.

Best,
Eduardo Moguillansky

If I recall correctly, the reason for sending all csound text output to stderr is to allow shell pipelines for audio data.

On Sat, Aug 30, 2014 at 11:20 AM, Eduardo Moguillansky <[hidden email]> wrote:

Hi,

this might me my confussion regarding the proper behaviour of a unix program in terms of what gets sent to stdout and what gets sent to stderr, but I would prefer that

$ csound -odac --get-system-sr

would output the samplerate to stdout and all the other information and warnings to stderr, instead of the current behaviour, which is to send everything to stderr.

Then it would not be necessary to parse all the warnings and other information in stderr to fish for the desired data, which is possible but feels somewhat fragile.

Best,
Eduardo Moguillansky

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