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From: Jiri Benc <jbenc@redhat.com>
To: Felix Kaiser <felix.kaiser@fxkr.net>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ip link/addr show: add empty line between interfaces
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2015 17:54:11 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150907175411.491f9c96@griffin> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1441639971-sup-8473@zero>

On Mon, 07 Sep 2015 17:38:48 +0200, Felix Kaiser wrote:
> My opinion is that if someone parses that, they deserve the opportunity
> to fix their code. At the very least they could have used -oneline!

No doubt. I also don't like scripts that parse the default "ip a"
output.

I just pointed out that there are different opinions and that it can
have some consequences. Personally, I have no strong feeling against
nor for the patch. It's up to Stephen to decide.

> I've met users who use a shell alias to hack newlines in

Which is not a bad solution, actually.

 Jiri

-- 
Jiri Benc

  reply	other threads:[~2015-09-07 15:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-09-06 11:01 [PATCH] ip link/addr show: add empty line between interfaces Felix Kaiser
2015-09-07 12:46 ` Jiri Benc
2015-09-07 15:38   ` Felix Kaiser
2015-09-07 15:54     ` Jiri Benc [this message]
2015-09-07 18:09       ` Stephen Hemminger
2015-09-07 19:57         ` Felix Kaiser

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