Lxd: lxc list output should be easier to parse

[rrva]

Currently, the lxc list output is not so easy to parse, it contains all of these tabulating characters:

$ lxc list wily:
+--------------------------+---------+-----------+------+-----------+-----------+
|           NAME           |  STATE  |   IPV4    | IPV6 | EPHEMERAL | SNAPSHOTS |
+--------------------------+---------+-----------+------+-----------+-----------+
| antihierarchical-tabatha | RUNNING | 10.3.0.60 |      | NO        | 0         |
+--------------------------+---------+-----------+------+-----------+-----------+

Compare with docker ps which is trivial to parse with awk:

$ docker ps
CONTAINER ID        IMAGE                    COMMAND                CREATED             STATUS              PORTS                   NAMES
2a4017e2f038        nginx:latest             "nginx -g 'daemon of   52 minutes ago      Up 52 minutes       80/tcp, 443/tcp         origin2
c8b134d22dd9        nginx:latest             "nginx -g 'daemon of   53 minutes ago      Up 52 minutes       80/tcp, 443/tcp         origin1

[stgraber]

We could introduce a --format option or similar to alter the rendering to be something easier to parse.

[linbynd]

+1 to this feature implementation. --format will be a useful feature..

[nick4u]

:+1: I really would like this feature
Also .. just IMHO ... as this is server console app default output should be as simple to parse. All fancy formatting should require manually specifying switch ex. "-f --fancy" ?
doing ...
# lxc list -cns|grep RUNNING|awk '{print $2}'
... just to get list of running ct's is ... aquard
(I really like lxd thou :)

[stgraber]

Having user friendly formatting by default I think is important but we'd certainly be happy to have alternative easier to parse formatting available.

[UtahDave]

+1
--format json would be incredibly useful.