HP-UX System Administrator's Guide: Configuration Management

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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
196 Configuring the Kernel