AUTHORS: Add Valient Gough.

[openvswitch] / lib / table.man

diff --git a/lib/table.man b/lib/table.man
index 8be272aa094fc67703400b5a494a7b119f9f7352..8c1469d682cd39ec057b28cd1846c03f4f287def 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/table.man
+++ b/lib/table.man
@@ -3,8 +3,12 @@
 Sets the type of table formatting.  The following types of
 \fIformat\fR are available:
 .RS
 Sets the type of table formatting.  The following types of
 \fIformat\fR are available:
 .RS

-.IP "\fBtable\fR (default)"
-Text-based tables with aligned columns.
+.ie '\*(PN'ovs\-vsctl' .IP "\fBtable\fR"
+.el                    .IP "\fBtable\fR (default)"
+2-D text tables with aligned columns.
+.ie '\*(PN'ovs\-vsctl' .IP "\fBlist\fR (default)"
+.el                    .IP "\fBlist\fR"
+A list with one column per line and rows separated by a blank line.

 .IP "\fBhtml\fR"
 HTML tables.
 .IP "\fBcvs\fR"
 .IP "\fBhtml\fR"
 HTML tables.
 .IP "\fBcvs\fR"


@@ -36,7 +40,14 @@ Sets the formatting for cells within output tables.  The following
 types of \fIformat\fR are available:
 .RS
 .IP "\fBstring\fR (default)"
 types of \fIformat\fR are available:
 .RS
 .IP "\fBstring\fR (default)"

-The simple format described in \fBovs\-vsctl\fR(8).
+The simple format described in the \fBDatabase Values\fR
+.ie '\*(PN'ovs\-vsctl' section below.
+.el                    section of \fBovs\-vsctl\fR(8).
+.IP "\fBbare\fR"
+The simple format with punctuation stripped off: \fB[]\fR and \fB{}\fR
+are omitted around sets, maps, and empty columns, items within sets
+and maps are space-separated, and strings are never quoted.  This
+format may be easier for scripts to parse.

 .IP "\fBjson\fR"
 JSON.
 .RE
 .IP "\fBjson\fR"
 JSON.
 .RE


@@ -56,3 +67,5 @@ per line, with indentation.
 .IP
 This option does not affect JSON in tables, which is always printed
 compactly.
 .IP
 This option does not affect JSON in tables, which is always printed
 compactly.

+.IP "\fB\-\-bare\fR"
+Equivalent to \fB\-\-format=list \-\-data=bare \-\-no\-headings\fR.