Peter Memishian wrote:
> > Consider the output for show-linkprop -c. There are quotes around all
> > values. While this provides consistency among the format of all possible
> > values of all possible properties (as some values may contain spaces),
> > it's not obvious to parse. At least not for me. How do I easily strip
> > the " characters from around a value in a shell script?
>
> One easy way is to use `eval'. For example, with my new ipmpstat command:
>
> get_existing_groupifname()
> {
> /sbin/ipmpstat -g -o groupname,group -PF | while read name ifname; do
> if [ $name = \"$1\" ]; then
> # eval disposes of the surrounding double-quotes.
> eval echo $ifname
> break;
> fi
> done
> }
>
> BTW, the "-F" option strips the `FIELD=' part -- but I'm starting to think
> it would make more sense to have the fieldnames stripped by default
> whenever -o is used with parseable mode.
Right, I think we'd thrown this idea around before. It makes sense to
me. If the caller asked for specific fields in a specific order, then
tagging the values shouldn't be necessary for parsing.
-Seb
