[GRASS-user] v.db.connect -p

[Markus Neteler]

On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 6:19 AM, Patricio Toledo
<patricioantoniotoledo at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear GRASS Developers
>
> This is a petition:
>
> Is it possible to add a option to v.db.connect (like g.region -p) so
> the output will be somelike:
>
>    $ v.db.connect -p map=test layer=2
>    driver=dbf
>    database=/the/database
>    table=thetable
>    column=thecolumn
>    layer=2
>
> i know -p actually does something very similar but this -p output is very useful
> in g.region, so one can do inside a shell-script:
>
>    $eval `v.db.connect -p map=test`
>
> to recover database connection parameters.

There is -g
  -g   Print all map connection parameters and exit in shell script style
        Format: layer[/layer name] table key database driver
but it doesn't work as advertised (it is not shell script style!):

v.db.connect -g map=streets_wake
1 streets_wake cat /home/neteler/grassdata/nc_spm_08/PERMANENT/dbf/ dbf

even with fs="=" it makes a mess:
v.db.connect -g map=streets_wake  fs="="
1=streets_wake=cat=/home/neteler/grassdata/nc_spm_08/PERMANENT/dbf/=dbf

Essentially, the line breaks are missing.
Should be a simple thing to fix.

Markus