Garrett D'Amore wrote: ... > And, maybe what we need to do is provide structured 'access' via some > kind of helper commands (or those -o switches that we've talked > about). Yeah, it might be another fork/exec combination compared to > parsing it natively with eval, but I suspect the benefits of > structured access (and reduced bugs!) make up for the minor > performance difference. (And if performance is an issue, then maybe > shell really is the wrong tool!)
Hmm, are you suggesting that there should be an output mode that is complex, such as XML, and that we feed said XML into something else, whereupon we describe how we want the XML decoded and then presented as output? Darren
