Can Drush site-alias return the alias names only in v9?

[robballou]

In Drush 9, it appears that site-alias will return the alias name plus the configuration of the alias. In cases where I'm trying to find the alias name, I used to do something like: drush sa | grep example. Now that will return a large number of results (potentially) as it returns everything.

As a workaround on Mac, I can do: drush sa | grep "^\S" | grep example but that's more work 😀

Using: Drush version : 9.0-dev-g86760050

[weitzman]

Not possible right now. You post-process the yaml output (our default format here) with https://github.com/grasmash/yaml-cli

[greg-1-anderson]

In Drush 8, drush sa --format=list. This is currently broken in Drush 9, but should be fixable.

[olivier-pierre]

I think this is a regression, because in drush 8.x, or even early 9.x IIRC, drush sa only return aliases name. Is it possible to use list format by default on this comment ? yaml format still be available for verbose and parsable output.

[greg-1-anderson]

This is a change in behavior, but I would not classify it as a regression. Some behavior will change across major version releases.

In Drush 8, the default format for an alias varied depending on whether you were listing all aliases, or just one. In Drush 9, we removed the ability to have variable default formats for commands, as being unable to predict the output format of a command is bad for scriptability.

Rather than returning list as the default format for drush sa, perhaps it might be reasonable to have a different command that always produces an alias list.

Note also that in Drush 9.0.0-beta9, drush sa @site.dev --format=list will print just the name of just one alias, which might address the problem in the OP.

[olivier-pierre]

OK, calling it regression is a bit hard ! ;)

I understand your points, and agree with them. I'm ok with this behavior, I just loose my quick use case : "Type 'drush sa' to quickly know what are the aliases in my current docroot".

[greg-1-anderson]

$ alias sa='drush site:alias --format=list