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On 12 Dec 2013, at 2:16, Teske, Devin <Devin.Teske@fisglobal.com> wrote:
> On Dec 11, 2013, at 2:45 AM, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> On 11 Dec 2013, at 18:51, Darren Pilgrim =
<list_freebsd@bluerosetech.com> wrote:
>>> On 12/10/2013 9:34 PM, Kevin Oberman wrote:
>>>> A parseable output from gpart would be wonderful.
>>>=20
>>> Have you seen the kern.geom.conf* sysctls?
>>=20
>> Have you tried parsing them from a shell script? :)
>>=20
>=20
> Trivial in my honest opinion. I'm just working on other ``more =
important'' things.

I'd be interested in seeing such trivial code.

Parsing XML using standard shell tools (and without making assumptions =
about line breaks etc etc) is pretty tedious :(

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