And while the great god UNIX was doing that, some programmer at ADSM coded

dsmadmc ... -tab -outfile=whatever

and

dsmadmc ... -comma -outfile=whaterver

Which can also be used with > filename instead of the outfile.


At 11:07 AM 10/22/2002 -0500, you wrote:

From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU]On Behalf Of
Michael Kindermann
> Is there a way, something like a switch or an option, to influence the
> dsmadmc-output, to give only the interesting result and no overhead ?
>
> Trying to scripting some task in a shell-script. And iam a little anoyed,
> becaus it
> not very difficult to get some output from the dsmserver. But it is  to
> reuse the information in the script.

"Lo, and the great god UNIX made grep, and it was good. And grep begat awk,
and sed. And sed lived 376 years, and begat Perl, and Python. And it was
good and there was joy in all the land."

--
Mark Stapleton (stapleton AT berbee DOT com)
Certified TSM consultant
Certified AIX system engineer
MCSE