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diff --git a/docs/features/generating_output.rst b/docs/features/generating_output.rst index c03f8778..2ee820f1 100644 --- a/docs/features/generating_output.rst +++ b/docs/features/generating_output.rst @@ -42,40 +42,6 @@ messages. Users can control whether they would like to see these messages by changing the value of the ``quiet`` setting. -Output Redirection ------------------- - -As in a Unix shell, output of a command can be redirected: - - - sent to a file with ``>``, as in ``mycommand args > filename.txt`` - - appended to a file with ``>>``, as in ``mycommand args >> filename.txt`` - - piped (``|``) as input to operating-system commands, as in - ``mycommand args | wc`` - - - -.. note:: - - If you wish to disable cmd2's output redirection and pipes features, you can - do so by setting the ``allow_redirection`` attribute of your ``cmd2.Cmd`` - class instance to ``False``. This would be useful, for example, if you want - to restrict the ability for an end user to write to disk or interact with - shell commands for security reasons:: - - from cmd2 import Cmd - class App(Cmd): - def __init__(self): - self.allow_redirection = False - - cmd2's parser will still treat the ``>``, ``>>``, and `|` symbols as output - redirection and pipe symbols and will strip arguments after them from the - command line arguments accordingly. But output from a command will not be - redirected to a file or piped to a shell command. - -If you need to include any of these redirection characters in your command, you -can enclose them in quotation marks, ``mycommand 'with > in the argument'``. - - Colored Output -------------- |