Agreed. From what has been said on this thread about “-Y” being unsupported and the command output could change from release to release … well, that’s a “known unknown” that can be dealt with.
But the fact that “-Y” was completely undocumented (at least as far as mmrepquota / mmlsquota are concerned) makes “-Y” one of those “unknown unknowns”… ;-) Kevin > On Mar 28, 2017, at 11:37 AM, Jonathon A Anderson > <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > gpfsug-discuss mailing list > gpfsug-discuss at spectrumscale.org > http://gpfsug.org/mailman/listinfo/gpfsug-discuss _______________________________________________ gpfsug-discuss mailing list gpfsug-discuss at spectrumscale.org http://gpfsug.org/mailman/listinfo/gpfsug-discuss
