Re: Parsing the attribute table from smartctl -A output

Preet wrote:
> I'm trying to parse the attribute table that's printed when smartctl
> is called with the -A option. Specifically I'd like to get the data
> for each 'cell' under the row:
>
> ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME          FLAG     VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE
> UPDATED  WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
>
> I know that entries under RAW_VALUE can have multiple pieces of
> information since some vendors pack multiple things in the raw value.
> ie a RAW_VALUE entry may look like "36 (Min/Max 34/38)"
>
> However can I be sure there's only ever one token (contiguous string
> without any in-between whitespace) for the rest of the headings? I
> haven't come across any examples where there's more than one, but I
> want to be sure.

This is true for both formats of the attribute table (-f old, -f brief).

Thanks,
Christian


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