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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2] ss: make socket statistic parseable
Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2013 06:44:22 -0700
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On Sun, 2013-10-20 at 15:24 +0200, Hagen Paul Pfeifer wrote:
> * Eric Dumazet | 2013-10-19 14:56:16 [-0700]:
> 
> >Seems fine to me, maybe we want to support json for better parsing
> >capabilities ?
> 
> Currently the parsing is straight forward with Python: split for
> whitespaces and subsequent split for colon to get a key/value list. Supporting
> an additional format may be overhead - not sure?! But yeah, JSON formated
> output is nice too. The current format has the advantage that it is human
> readable and "good" machine parseable. Except the first line:
> 

Yes, I was only suggesting adding the -j flag, as done lately on other
iproute2 commands. Default would stay as is ;)

> tcp    ESTAB      0      0 192.168.1.29:58951 208.68.163.218:xmpp-cli
> 
> The line has a strict order, so it is not that hard to write a correct parser.
> 
> 
> Btw: for people not following google plus circus: I wrote an parser for ss(8)
> for plotting TCP stack variables:
> 
> http://research.protocollabs.com/captcp/doc-socket-statistic-module.html

Yeah, I saw that on your Google+ page, very nice tool !

Thanks