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Re: Project Idea


From: Kevin Wang
Subject: Re: Project Idea
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 23:39:10 -0700
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> On Fri, Oct 12, 2001 at 10:03:09AM -0700, Kevin Wang wrote:
> > I've been mulling over the following idea in my head, and want to
> > circulate it to other people for more input.
> > 
> > At this point, it's no more than this short paragraph:
> > 
> > scripting in unix is 80% parsing of data.  the output of netstat
> > is hideous, as is ifconfig.  ls is also bad, and some tools make it
> > somewhat easier (sls) since you can specify a output format string, but
> > what could really make things better is to just modify the utilities to
> > have an xml output mode.  This way, you can just say "I want # of packets
> > out for eth0" rather than having to do something really cryptic and
> > non-portable by parsing the line by fixed width, column position, etc.
> > 
> > I think that the gnu utilities (find, xargs, grep) would be an excellent
> > place to start.
> > 
> > I hope to start fleshing the idea out a bunch more, especially since
> > some new utilities would need creating - how do you take xml as input
> > and output just a single value? (i.e. the above request "I want the #
> > of packets out for eth0")
> > 
> > Do you have any ideas, input, or other resources that may be useful?
> > Think this project has a place in gnu?
> > 
> >    - Kevin
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