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

[MORITA Kazutaka]

At Mon, 20 Jun 2011 15:43:12 +1000,
AP wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 01:09:25AM +0900, MORITA Kazutaka 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?
> > 
> > I don't know the way to include tabs or newlines into a program
> > argument string.  I think it is enough to handle only ' ' and '\'.
> 
> Hit ctrl-v and tab (or ctrl-i) or ctrl-v and enter (ctrl-m).
> 
> Also, in bash at least $'\t' works for tabs and $'\n' for enter and it
> does other escape codes.

Thanks for the information.

> 
> Best to escape non-printables, regardless of what they are. Less suprises
> that way (taking care of utf-8 fun :).
> 
> The other possibility is not to allow nul in the data and use \0 as the
> seperator.

Chris wrote a patch which uses space and newline as the separators,
and it looks the most straightforward format to me:

  https://github.com/collie/sheepdog/commit/b9859febe93d26ff3decc217f4f9ac460fd61439

Let's discuss again if another patch is posted for this. :)


Thanks,

Kazutaka