It returns multiple lines. You have to deal with it. With some of my Perl tools, I just created a regexp that iterates to find the appropriate lines.

You should probably just start at the top and count any line that has cmd_* as being the beginning of a section, then keep slurping data until you hit another cmd_* line, then start another section, etc.

So yes, it's annoying, but it's hardly something we can't code for. :)

whoa, that's really really not good. it's possible to code around but it's definitely breaking the protocol. it may not so bad in perl but some of us parse this stuff in c. we shouldn't have to write a special-cased function just for one possible subcommand of one interface mode.