On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 09:21:40AM -0500, Nicolas Williams wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 10:59:52PM -0700, Mike Shapiro wrote:
> > Please yes.
>
> Consider it done. I'm relieved too. This is badly needed.
>
> > What is desperately needed is the syntax to
> > reliably assign a ksh93 or bash array variable from a multi-valued
> > property *and* handle all the escapes and quoting etc.
>
> I've got a ksh93 script that sets properties, including multi-values
> properties with funny meta-chars in them, via svccfg(1M). So I think
> we're OK for setting properties. It's getting their values that I find
> very difficult.
>
> That said, and if there are no objections I'd be happy to look into how
> to add support for setting SMF props via svcprop in a scriptable way
> too.
No, I was talking about getting too -- I meant "set" as in set the
ksh or bash variable. i.e. I want:
typeset -a foo=`svcprop -xxx ...`
or with eval in front to expand to the proper array assigment
syntax, so I am quoting metacharacters and also filling in the
array assignment delimiters, etc.
-Mike
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Mike Shapiro, Sun Microsystems Fishworks. blogs.sun.com/mws/
