[gpfsug-discuss] -Y option for many commands, precious few officially!

[Buterbaugh, Kevin L]

Agreed.

From what has been said on this thread about “-Y” being unsupported and the command output could change from release to release … well, that’s a “known unknown” that can be dealt with.

But the fact that “-Y” was completely undocumented (at least as far as mmrepquota / mmlsquota are concerned) makes “-Y” one of those “unknown unknowns”… ;-)

Kevin

> On Mar 28, 2017, at 11:37 AM, Jonathon A Anderson <jonathon.anderson at colorado.edu> wrote:
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> Sure; but that only helps if you know the flag even exists.
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> ~jonathon
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> On 3/28/17, 10:37 AM, "gpfsug-discuss-bounces at spectrumscale.org on behalf of Simon Thompson (Research Computing - IT Services)" <gpfsug-discuss-bounces at spectrumscale.org on behalf of S.J.Thompson at bham.ac.uk> wrote:
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>    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 ...
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> 
>    Simon
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>    From: <gpfsug-discuss-bounces at spectrumscale.org> on behalf of Marc A Kaplan <makaplan at us.ibm.com>
>    Reply-To: "gpfsug-discuss at spectrumscale.org" <gpfsug-discuss at spectrumscale.org>
>    Date: Tuesday, 28 March 2017 at 17:14
>    To: "gpfsug-discuss at spectrumscale.org" <gpfsug-discuss at spectrumscale.org>
>    Subject: Re: [gpfsug-discuss] -Y option for many commands, precious few officially!
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> 
>    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.
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>    But as many of you have discovered, -Y is accepted and yields "interesting" output for many of the mmXXXX commands.  
>    Moreover the output *seems to* have easily discernible patterns that can be parsed by simple programs.
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>    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.  
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