>
> Nsradmin requires an interactive session.

No it doesn't.  I've made lots of shell and perl scripts that use it
without interaction.

% printf "show work list\nprint type:nsr group;name: default\n" |
nsradmin -i - | <perl script that parses the output>

> I'm researching wether a
> scheduling software can start a new job after first querying the status of
> a running backup. If it's only indexes waiting to offload, we'd like that
> job to start. During peak times, we've waited up to 2 hrs just for indexes
> to offload.

Run the job above.  Have the perl script parse the output into
individual ietms remaining in the work list.  Determine if all the
remaining jobs are indexes.  Have a return code or output based on that.

The nsradmin output is formatted funny sometimes, so the parsing isn't
as trivial as a grep, but it's not too difficult.

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