Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 6 Nov 2001 15:28:26 -0700 | From | Erik Andersen <> | Subject | Re: PROPOSAL: /proc standards (was dot-proc interface [was: /proc |
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On Tue Nov 06, 2001 at 07:24:13PM -0200, Rik van Riel wrote: > I really fail to see your point, it's trivial to make > files which are easy to read by humans and also very > easy to parse by shellscripts. > > PROCESSOR=0 > VENDOR_ID=GenuineIntel > CPU_FAMILY=6 > MODEL=6 > MODEL_NAME="Celeron (Mendocino)" > ..... > > As you can see, this is easily readable by humans, > while "parsing" by a shell script would be as follows: > > . /proc/cpuinfo > > After which you could just "echo $PROCESSOR" or > something like that ...
I think we have a winner! If we could establish this as policy that would be _sweet_!
-Erik
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