Is there a way to choose columns in the rustic snapshot tabular output?

[s-leroux]

Is there a way to choose columns in the rustic snapshot tabular output?

It is a special case, but while writing the docs, I often find myself piping the rustic snapshot output through cut to remove the Time column.

$ rustic snapshots | cut -d '|' -f 1,2, 4-


snapshots for (host [kasimir], label [], paths [Project])
| ID       | Host    | Label | Tags | Paths   | Files | Dirs |      Size |
|----------|---------|-------|------|---------|-------|------|-----------|
| 7f3eef1f | kasimir |       |      | Project |   507 |   87 | 524.0 KiB |
| 5109f5fe | kasimir |       |      | Project |   508 |   87 | 524.0 KiB |
| ca466029 | kasimir |       |      | Project |   509 |   87 | 524.0 KiB |
3 snapshot(s)

Questions to consider:

• Would that affect the JSON output?
• Is column selection useful for other commands' output?
• Is it useful at all?

[s-leroux]

$ cat ~/.local/bin/rustic
#!/bin/bash
RUSTIC=/usr/local/cargo/bin/rustic

${RUSTIC} "$@" | cut -d'|' -f 1,2,4-

:D

[aawsome]

There is no way to customize that currently. If anyone comes up with a PR, we'll happily add this, but it's at least not on my personal TODO list ;-)

In any case it wouldn't affect json output. But I think if we customize this, we should take into account the interactive mode (snapshots -i)

[s-leroux]

we should take into account the interactive mode (snapshots -i)

I wasn't aware of the interactive mode before you introduced it in a previous answer. :D

The question targeted essentially non-interactive modes. Especially, coupled with the standard *nix-standard tools that are line-oriented.

If you think the current standard output is for human consumption, we may consider adding a new output format (--csv, or --format=). Field selection might not be mandatory if the tabular output format is stable between releases.

not on my personal TODO list ;-)

No problem. It was just an idea.
Maybe we could convert that discussion to a "help wanted" issue?

[aawsome]

#1666