Multiple files at once

[niccokunzmann]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

I would like to use mergecal with several input files and one output file.

Describe alternatives you've considered

I think, I considered piping it into other files.

Additional context

I wonder: Can we use STDOUT the default output? I will see...

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[abe-101]

I'm not sure I understand. Are you suggestion we dont save the output to a file but instead send it to STDOUT? and it'll be on the user to pipe it into a file?

[niccokunzmann]

yes, as an option. e.g. wget uses -O - to send it to stdout.

[abe-101]

collective/icalendar#757 is introducing builtin methods for reading and writing to a file.
We should update:

python-mergecal/src/mergecal/cli.py

Line 32 in c14ea1c

with open(calendar_path, "rb") as cal_file:

to use that method