Sure; but that only helps if you know the flag even exists.

~jonathon


On 3/28/17, 10:37 AM, "[email protected] on behalf of 
Simon Thompson (Research Computing - IT Services)" 
<[email protected] on behalf of [email protected]> 
wrote:

    I thought the header rows defined what the format of the output was. Its a 
bit weird as there can be multiple header rows for different content rows ...
    
    
    Simon
    
    
    From: <[email protected]> on behalf of Marc A Kaplan 
<[email protected]>
    Reply-To: "[email protected]" 
<[email protected]>
    Date: Tuesday, 28 March 2017 at 17:14
    To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
    Subject: Re: [gpfsug-discuss] -Y option for many commands, precious few 
officially!
    
    
    
    Just looking/scanning the latest (4.2.2) Spectrum Scale Command (and 
Programming) Reference I only found a few commands that officially are 
documented as supporting a -Y option:  mmnfs, mmsmb, mmuserauth.
    
    But as many of you have discovered, -Y is accepted and yields "interesting" 
output for many of the mmXXXX commands.  
    Moreover the output *seems to* have easily discernible patterns that can be 
parsed by simple programs.
    
    I believe there is no guarantee that the exact command output formats will 
not change from release to release, so, as a practical matter, if you're going 
to parse command output, you're probably better off parsing the -Y output,
     even if that is not officially supported.  
    
    
    
    

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