On Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 10:34:45AM -0700, David Bustos wrote: > Quoth Nicolas Williams on Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 05:38:07PM -0500: > > Below is my first draft of an ARC case for this. Please review. > > Thanks for taking the initiative on this, Nico. > > > PROBLEM > > ------- > > > > svcprop(1) output does not unambiguously distinguish the individual > > values of multi-valued properties. This makes it difficult to script > > around svcprop(1). > > Can we make this more precise? Isn't the problem that when svcprop > quotes newline, it does so with a backslash, which is difficult to use > with "read"?
Let me investigate some more. I think part of the problem is removing the quoting, yes.
