> The question isn't about discouraging scripting, but rather, how far do > we want to go to enable people to use a shell script to perform > something that they really probably should have a better tool for?
Folks, people *are* scripting using our utilities. If someone wants to go off and design an alternative universe, great, please write up your case and submit it -- I'm sure you'll be able to fix some hard problems along the way. In the meantime, dladm(1M) *already* has a parseable output mode, and that output mode is problematic. This case is about fixing that, along with providing a point of reference that others in similar situations could make use of here and now. -- meem
