[lxc-users] Feature request: raw lxc utilities output format and operations with multiplie containers?

[Andriy Tovstik]

Hi, Janjaap Bos!

I tried jq. But as i have already wrote, some useful fileds like container
name are missing in json output...

чт, 10 нояб. 2016 г. в 14:27, Janjaap Bos <janjaapbos at gmail.com>:

> You can pipe the json through jq.
>
> See: https://stedolan.github.io/jq/tutorial
>
>
> 2016-11-10 11:17 GMT+01:00 Andriy Tovstik <andriy.tovstik at gmail.com>:
>
> Hi all!
>
> During LXD learning i encountered with lack of some features.
>
> The first one is "raw" output format of lxc list. Currently lxc list
> supports two formats: table and json. Unfortunately both formats are
> unusable for scripting.
> It is very difficult to pass to script output likes:
> # lxc list --format table -c n
> +------------+
> |    NAME    |
> +------------+
> | mysql-rep1 |
> +------------+
> | mysql-rep2 |
> +------------+
> | mysql-rep3 |
> +------------+
>
> When i try to use json format i see that useful fields like container name
> are missing in output. May be it will be useful to implement feature like:
>
> # lxc list --format raw -c n --no-header
> mysql-rep1
> mysql-rep2
> mysql-rep3
>
> The second feature looks useful is ability run commands on multiplie
> containers simultaneously. For example:
>
> # lxc exec web-node* -- apt update
>
> What do you think about it?
> --
> WBR, Andriy Tovstik
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