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<div>I thought the header rows defined what the format of the output was. Its a bit weird as there can be multiple header rows for different content rows ...</div>
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<div>Simon</div>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span><<a href="mailto:gpfsug-discuss-bounces@spectrumscale.org">gpfsug-discuss-bounces@spectrumscale.org</a>> on behalf of Marc A Kaplan <<a href="mailto:makaplan@us.ibm.com">makaplan@us.ibm.com</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Reply-To: </span>"<a href="mailto:gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org">gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org">gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span>Tuesday, 28 March 2017 at 17:14<br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span>"<a href="mailto:gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org">gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org">gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span>Re: [gpfsug-discuss] -Y option for many commands, precious few officially!<br>
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<div><font size="2" face="sans-serif">Just looking/scanning the latest (4.2.2) Spectrum Scale Command (and Programming) Reference I only found a few commands that officially are documented as supporting a -Y option: mmnfs, mmsmb, mmuserauth.</font><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">But as many of you have discovered, -Y is accepted and yields "interesting" output for many of the mmXXXX commands. <br>
Moreover the output *seems to* have easily discernible patterns that can be parsed by simple programs.</font><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">I believe there is no guarantee that the exact command output formats will not change from release to release, so, as a practical matter, if you're going to parse command output, you're probably better off parsing the -Y output,
even if that is not officially supported. </font><br>
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