Re: interesting 9.3P17 & 9.5P5 bug

Thanks for checking, I think it's a bug myself... but I can see how it
might be considered a feature of some sort.
>>>>> "tmac" == tmac  <[email protected]> writes:

tmac> Just tried in 9.7P11

tmac> knoxsahrc09l99::> set -showseparator ","

tmac> knoxsahrc09l99::> export-policy show
tmac> Vserver          Policy Name
tmac> ---------------  -------------------
tmac> esxi_boot        default

tmac> knoxsahrc09l99::> set -showseparator "--"

tmac> knoxsahrc09l99::> export-policy show
tmac> Vserver          Policy Name
tmac> ---------------  -------------------
tmac> esxi_boot        default

tmac> knoxsahrc09l99::> export-policy show -fields vserver ,policyname
tmac> vserver--policyname--
tmac> Vserver--Policy Name--
tmac> esxi_boot--default--

tmac> knoxsahrc09l99::> set -showseparator " "

tmac> knoxsahrc09l99::> export-policy show -fields vserver ,policyname
tmac> vserver   policyname
tmac> --------- ----------
tmac> esxi_boot default

tmac> --tmac

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tmac> On Fri, Feb 12, 2021 at 11:58 AM John Stoffel <[email protected]> wrote:

tmac>     Just ran into an interesting bug in 9.3P17 (yes, I'm off support!)
tmac>     and another 9.5P5 system which I thought I'd share. 
   
tmac>     Let's grab all the export policies on the system in CSV format to make
tmac>     it easy to parse: 
   
tmac>         ntap1::> set -showseparator ","; export-policy show
   
tmac>         Vserver          Policy Name
tmac>         ---------------  -------------------
tmac>         foo              default
   
tmac>     WTF?  That's wierd?   Let's try something else:
   
tmac>         ntap1::> set -showseparator ","; export-policy show -fields vserver
tmac>         ,policyname
   
tmac>         vserver,policyname,
tmac>         Vserver,Policy Name,
tmac>         foo,default,
   
tmac>     Ah!  Now we're getting what we want.  Stupid annoying bug when you're
tmac>     trying to write a perl script to pull out data.  Can anyone confirm if
tmac>     this is still there in the latest releases?
   
tmac>     Hmm... poking at it some more... I suspect I'm forgetting that you
tmac>     *must* specify the fields when changing the -showseparator to get
tmac>     easier to parse output.  But I still think this is a surprising
tmac>     occurance, since it does include the field names, so there's no need
tmac>     to actually specify them in the output.
   
tmac>     Principal of least surprise and all that.
   
tmac>     Cheers,
tmac>     John
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