On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 02:08:52PM -0700, David Bustos wrote: > > Hey, how about more string escaping options? E.g., hex, od -c style > > (minus unnecessary spaces)? > > For arbitrary types? For astrings? I believe we already dump hex for > opaque values. Otherwise, it doesn't seem like a common use case to me. > Do you have cases in mind?
Fetching multiple properties/values + some sed massaging + eval the result to set shell variables en masse. Alternatively, maybe svcprop could have a shell output mode where it outputs shell code that can safely be evaluated to set variables whose names correspond to the selected properties. Nico --
