On 03/29/10 12:34 PM, Steve Mckinty wrote:
Sebastien Roy wrote:
Taking a step back here, this subcommand is not the only zfs
subcommand whose output could be subject to parsing by scripts. Adding
parsable output should be something that is thought-through for the
entire suite of subcommands (and zfs-related commands) so that there
is a uniformly applicable solution. IMO, that's not this case
(although that's ultimately the project team's decision). If you think
there is something that is ambiguous to the human eye, then I think
that's in scope.
It's not uncommon to have an additional option to a command (stty -g for
example) which produces easily-parsable (and not necessarily easily
readable :) ) output for this situation.
That's right, but to reiterate, I think that such an option should
theoretically apply to more then just the "diff" subcommand.
-Seb
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