On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 03:56:26PM +0000, Brad Beyenhof wrote: > If only we could get bash to return everything as an object > rather than needing to mangle lots of text-based program output > with awk or Perl!
Your wish was granted in 1998. Everything that's new is old. UNIX shell objects Christopher A. Jones ISBN 0-7645-7004-8 http://www.amazon.com/dp/0764570048 Fascinating read. Highly recommended. HTH, -- Charles Polisher _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list Tech@lists.lopsa.org https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/