Subject: Re: bin/2893: Prettier df listings with long nfs mounts.
To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
From: Jeremy Cooper <jeremy@broder.com>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 10/26/1996 14:34:58
On Sat, 26 Oct 1996, Jason Thorpe wrote:

> On Sat, 26 Oct 1996 13:19:13 +0200 (CEST) 
>  Anders Magnusson <ragge@my40.sm.luth.se> wrote:
> 
>  > >Synopsis:       Prettier df listings with long nfs mounts.
> 
> I agree that this looks much nicer... but it's harder for scripts to
> parse... For example, a friend of mine wrote a little tcl script
> that parses df output, and generates a bar graph showing percentage
> of space used.  Having the line broken up like that means that you
> can't just say `column N' ...
> 

Why not check it stdout is a tty?  If not, default to the old style
output.

-J