Hi Anand, On 09/05/2013 12:07 PM, Anand Nande wrote: Processing shell output is just like any text processing, basically what you need is a simple bash script, that analyses the input produced by something like [1] and invokes another script based on your condition/s something like [2]: [1] list vms --show-all | grep -w 'name\|status' > list_vms ovirt-shell -f list_vms [2] s1="..." s2="..." if [$s1 == $s2] then # invoke relevant script passing relevant parameters fi * in future versions (maybe even at 3.4) i plan adding additional cli capabilities to the shell, like invoking single command and printing the output to stdio what will make possible writing a single bash script that invokes different shell commands, but till then you can achieve the same via dedicated scripts like list_vms/suspend_vms/export_vms (in my view its even better from the code maintenance PoV) -- Michael Pasternak RedHat, ENG-Virtualization R&D