Trim trailing empty lines from CLI output #1547

olatoft · 2023-12-21T11:13:05Z

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Enhancement request

The output from the CLI seems to always include 2 trailing empty lines. Could they be removed?

Example command: $ https google.com

Current output:

HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Alt-Svc: h3=":443"; ma=2592000,h3-29=":443"; ma=2592000
Cache-Control: private, max-age=2592000
Content-Length: 220
Content-Security-Policy-Report-Only: object-src 'none';base-uri 'self';script-src 'nonce-qWBSXxuQK80KB3NcDHBMJw' 'strict-dynamic' 'report-sample' 'unsafe-eval' 'unsafe-inline' https: http:;report-uri https://csp.withgoogle.com/csp/gws/other-hp
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2023 11:01:33 GMT
Expires: Thu, 21 Dec 2023 11:01:33 GMT
Location: https://www.google.com/
P3P: CP="This is not a P3P policy! See g.co/p3phelp for more info."
Server: gws
Set-Cookie: CONSENT=PENDING+017; expires=Sat, 20-Dec-2025 11:01:33 GMT; path=/; domain=.google.com; Secure
X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN
X-XSS-Protection: 0

<HTML><HEAD><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8">
<TITLE>301 Moved</TITLE></HEAD><BODY>
<H1>301 Moved</H1>
The document has moved
<A HREF="https://www.google.com/">here</A>.
</BODY></HTML>

The output I would like:

HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Alt-Svc: h3=":443"; ma=2592000,h3-29=":443"; ma=2592000
Cache-Control: private, max-age=2592000
Content-Length: 220
Content-Security-Policy-Report-Only: object-src 'none';base-uri 'self';script-src 'nonce-qWBSXxuQK80KB3NcDHBMJw' 'strict-dynamic' 'report-sample' 'unsafe-eval' 'unsafe-inline' https: http:;report-uri https://csp.withgoogle.com/csp/gws/other-hp
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2023 11:01:33 GMT
Expires: Thu, 21 Dec 2023 11:01:33 GMT
Location: https://www.google.com/
P3P: CP="This is not a P3P policy! See g.co/p3phelp for more info."
Server: gws
Set-Cookie: CONSENT=PENDING+017; expires=Sat, 20-Dec-2025 11:01:33 GMT; path=/; domain=.google.com; Secure
X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN
X-XSS-Protection: 0

<HTML><HEAD><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8">
<TITLE>301 Moved</TITLE></HEAD><BODY>
<H1>301 Moved</H1>
The document has moved
<A HREF="https://www.google.com/">here</A>.
</BODY></HTML>

So exactly the same, and still with an empty line for padding between sections like headers and body, but without the 2 trailing empty lines.

Problem it solves

Would give a shorter output. This means there would be a shorter distance to scroll up to some output, and in some cases there would be no need to scroll at all, since more actual output could fit in the window.

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Version: 3.2.1
OS: Ubuntu 23.10

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vivekthedev · 2024-01-09T10:47:44Z

cli/httpie/output/writer.py

Lines 22 to 26 in 9e8e369

 
 MESSAGE_SEPARATOR = '\n\n' 

 MESSAGE_SEPARATOR_BYTES = MESSAGE_SEPARATOR.encode()

These lines append two newlines at the end of the output. I also thinks that it should append only a single newline.

olatoft added enhancement New feature or enhancement new Needs triage. Comments are welcome! labels Dec 21, 2023

hydromelvictor added a commit to hydromelvictor/cli that referenced this issue Jan 15, 2024

Trim trailing empty lines from CLI output httpie#1547

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blyxxyz mentioned this issue Apr 9, 2024

JSON pretty printing inserts extra newline ducaale/xh#349

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Trim trailing empty lines from CLI output #1547

Trim trailing empty lines from CLI output #1547

olatoft commented Dec 21, 2023

vivekthedev commented Jan 9, 2024