On 4/14/2010 10:51 AM, Steve Simmons wrote:
> 
> On Apr 13, 2010, at 5:28 PM, Jeffrey Altman wrote:
> 
>>>
>>> I'm a long-time fan of having a switch that causes tools to dump their data 
>>> in an easy-to-machine-parse format. That isn't always doable, but when it 
>>> is, it's a big win.
>>
>> As Andrew pointed out in another reply in this thread, the -format
>> switch is support to provide that but it fails to provide a consistent
>> (value - data) pair per line.
> 
> Exactly my point. We currently snarf off all that data nightly via script 
> that parses the output from vos e -format. It works but was a pain.
> 
> Note, tho, that some data doesn't adapt well to single-line output. For 
> example, 
> 
> just doesn't map well to single-line. We currently deal with this by creating 
> four records, each will all the data from the rest of the output and the 
> specifics of the four entries above.
> 
> Steve

Anyone want a -xml option?


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