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

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