[Sheepdog] [PATCH, RFC] collie: add -r/--raw option for machine-readable output

Peter Fern sheepdog at obfusc8.org
Fri Jun 17 01:48:00 CEST 2011


On 17/06/11 03:14, Chris Webb wrote:
> Presumably we do ' ' -> '\ ' and '\' -> '\\' so shell read will do the
> right
> thing. Can vdi names also contains tabs and newlines? If so, I should
> probably quote those too, though I don't think shell convention defines a
> sensible way to backslash-quote a newline does it?

Perhaps a delimited output should be considered for machine-reading?




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