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At 23:23 10/18/00 -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >I don't see much difficulty in parsing the output now, actually. true, once you know what you're doing... I've seen a lot of people write scripts that would have choked on that output you had above, simply because they saw formatted output and started making assumptions, where as if they'd seen colon separated values.. well cut -d ':' would become a much more heavily used script construct. Often picking up those scripts and moving them between *nix platforms has been a royal pain in the past, not only do you have to deal with the myriad of conflicting command line options, and the different ordering, but also that sometimes a field is 4 chars, and others it could be 10. This could *all* be solved if there was ONE switch across all ps implementations that output a simple csv style out put that could be accessed with a simple hlookup style of argument. ok, so I'm off in left field smoking crack and picking daises... -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
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