[gpfsug-discuss] Did you know about "-Y" ?? I sure didn't... game changer

[Steve Duersch]

We try our hardest to keep those columns static.  Rarely are they changed.
We are aware that folks are programming against them and we don't rearrange
where things are.

Steve Duersch
Spectrum Scale (GPFS) FVTest
IBM Poughkeepsie, New York

>If you build a monitoring pipeline using -Y output, make sure you test
>between revisions before upgrading. The columns do have a tendency to
>change from time to time.
>
>Cheers,
>Barry
>On 20/04/2016 20:02, Bryan Banister wrote:
>
> Apparently, though not documented in man pages or any of the GPFS docs
> that I?ve read (at least that I recall), there is a ?-Y? option to
> many/most GPFS commands that provides output in machine readable
fashion?.
>
> That?s right kids? no more parsing obscure, often changed output
> columns with your favorite bash/awk/python/magic.
>
> Why IBM would not document this is beyond me,
>
> -B
>
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