* Stephan von Krawczynski <skraw at ithnet.com> [2012 08 28, 15:31]: > You are not seriously talking about 80 char terminals for an output > that is commonly used by scripts and stuff like nagios, are you? > > > ----- > > Hostname: 10.70.36.7 > > Uuid: c7283ee7-0e8d-4cb8-8552-a63ab05deaa7 > > State: Peer in Cluster (Connected) > > ----- Given the '80 char terminals' and the plan to add more fields, I would suggest a kind of key-value output which should be as easy to parse: ----- cut here ----- c7283ee7-0e8d-4cb8-8552-a63ab05deaa7: Hostname: 10.70.36.7 c7283ee7-0e8d-4cb8-8552-a63ab05deaa7: State: Connected ----- cut here ----- This way you should be able to line-filter the output as if it was all in one line.
