Peter Memishian wrote: > > For the choice of delimiter, if the "read" routines already handle > > the escape sequences AND you are generating all the output, you could > > as easily generate MAC addrs in an escaped form and the consuming > > shell wouldn't need to care. (yes, MAC addrs of the form xx\:yy\:zz > > would show up in the output stream, but (other than being ugly) would > > add no effective complexity to their use...) > > That's a good point, especially since the output is intended only for > scripts (which won't be offended by the escapes), and using : is slightly > easier for scripts since IFS=: doesn't require any quoting, but IFS='|' > requires the surrounding single-quotes (as shown) to not be misparsed by > the shell. John (Leser): what do you think? >
I'm fine with ':', especially give that zoneadm already uses it. -John
