On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 09:05:24AM -0700, Mike Shapiro wrote: > 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.
How about something like svcprop -o <output-format> with these output formats: - ksh93-compound Outputs compound variable assignments that expose all SMF information (property group names and types, property names, types, value counts and properly escaped values). Use like so: somesvc=($(svcprop -o ksh93-compound ...) ) - sh Outputs shell code to be eval'ed that sets variables with names like <pg>_<prop>_type=<prop value type> <pg>_<prop>_count=<count of values> <pg>_<prop>_<index>=<value #index> Use like so: eval `svcprop -o sh ...` - ksh88, bash Like sh, but with <pg>_<prop>_values being a regular array. eval $(svcprop -o ksh ...) - ... This is a much bigger undertaking though... Nico --
