On Friday 28 May 2010 14:03:42 Olaf Zevenboom wrote: > Kern Sibbald wrote: > > On Thursday 27 May 2010 17:23:46 Morty Abzug wrote: > >> On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 05:01:52PM +0200, Kern Sibbald wrote: > >>> I don't think there is any need for either a -e option nor a -b option. > >>> Both can easily be done via the shell. > >> > >> -e can indeed easily be done from the shell. But the caller isn't > >> always a shell environment. It's usually possible to workaround this, > >> of course, with something like sh -c "echo mount | bconsole"; -e would > >> just make this easier. > >> > >> -b cannot easily be done by the shell. The intent is to remove > >> formatting done for human convenience. > > > > I have been doing *lots* of scripting of bconsole for 8 years no with no > > problems, so I really don't understand the problem. > > > > What do you mean by "remove formatting done for human convenience"? > > Not sure what *he* means but I can guess: mysql has various options to > call mysql without formatting output or with a special way of > formatting output when used from commandline/script. To relate this to > Bacula: list media scripted through bconsole: echo "list media" | bconsole > This produces a list of media formatted in an ascii-table with columns, > fields etc marked up by "+" ,"-" and "|" characters. > Comparing this to mysql again: mysql allows the removal of > column/field-names and other layouting. bconsole does not. (see man mysql) > This results in the need of getting rid of those from within the script. > Fine if you are using perl, python, php etc but a bit more troublesome > if you are scripting in Bash. (cut, grep, awk, sed can help of course). > So the point being: bconsole's output must be stripped on every occasion > which leads to more coding in scripts. Depending on the scripting > language this is hard or easy but needed nevertheless.
OK, I see. bconsole (actually Bacula) has a good number of commands, known as dot commands, that produce output in a machine friendly format rather than a human friendly format. Please read the manual. The commands you want are probably already implemented. Kern ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
