[Gluster-users] FeedBack Requested : Changes to CLI output of 'peer status'

[James]

On Tue, 2012-08-28 at 12:51 -0600, Joe Topjian wrote:
> Hi Pranith,
> 
> On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 6:51 AM, Pranith Kumar Karampuri
> <pkarampu at redhat.com> wrote:
>            Why not use --xml at the end of the command? That will
>         print the output in xml format. Would that make it easy to
>         parse?.
> 
> 
> IMO, I can see --xml being useful for more "sophisticated" scripts
> that utilize Perl, Python, or Ruby, however, for quick shell
> scripting, I can see this being very difficult if not unusable.
FWIW: I tend to agree on this point. The other question that comes to
mind is what "quick" bash scripts are you writing for managing gluster?

Get curious,
James
> 
> 
> Having the output print in set columns, though might wrap when printed
> on <=80 char terminals, would make it very easy to parse with awk.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Joe
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