Quoth Nicolas Williams on Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 02:41:25PM -0500:
> If I understand your proposal you're suggestion one svcprop invocation
> to find how many values for a property, and then a per-value invocation
> of svcprop. Sounds rather wasteful (lots of fork/execs), though that
> too will do -- but think about how you use that from a shell program and
> compare to my usage above.
No, sorry I wasn't clear enough. I'm proposing that svcprop print the
values in such a way that you can do
for val in `svcprop ...`; do
...
done
or
set -- `svcprop ...`
# use positional parameters
Though I suspect that there should also be a way for a script to obtain
the number of values and abort if there are too many. Though that could
be defeated by an intervening modification.
David
