Managing Systems and Workgroups: A Guide for HP-UX System Administrators

Configuring a System
Reconfiguring the Kernel (HP-UX 11i Version 2)
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Parsing Command Output
Improvements to HP-UX often require changes in the output formats of
commands like those described here. This can be troublesome when
applications or scripts have been written that parse the outputs of those
commands. For this reason, each of the primary kernel configuration
commands (kcmodule, kctune, and kconfig) has a special output
format, selected with the -P (Parse) option, designed for parsing by
applications. In addition to providing release-to-release compatibility, it
is also easier to parse than human-readable output.