Wichert Akkerman writes: > > I noticed the lsb_release output is unnecessarily hard to parse: even > if I explicitly request a single value it insists on using > "key: value" output, which means I need to strip it manually. Can > we consider changing it to be more like uname?
How about if a single value is to be returned then the 'key:' part is dropped, otherwise the current behaviour is preserved. This would seem to me to be less likely to cause problems in the future if lsb_release changes what '-a' returns and also avoids problems with spaces in fields. Regards, Chris. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Support Open Source Ice-Cream
