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* parsing ethtool output in programs/scripts
@ 2015-09-02  0:22 Robert Urban
  2015-09-02  0:33 ` Stephen Hemminger
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From: Robert Urban @ 2015-09-02  0:22 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: bwh, netdev

Hello,

I wish you would consider adding a switch to ethtool (and the corresponding
functionality) to produce output in machine-readable format.

This would be *extremely* useful.

Why not add the "--machine-readable" switch mentioned here:

   
http://www.hezmatt.org/~mpalmer/blog/2011/12/17/rethtool-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-ioctl.html

and another page which talks about the difficulty of parsing ethtool's output:

    http://pjrlost.blogspot.de/2011/11/linuxunix-and-new-output-pipe-stdobj.html

cheers,
Robert Urban

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* Re: parsing ethtool output in programs/scripts
  2015-09-02  0:22 parsing ethtool output in programs/scripts Robert Urban
@ 2015-09-02  0:33 ` Stephen Hemminger
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Stephen Hemminger @ 2015-09-02  0:33 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Robert Urban; +Cc: bwh, netdev

On Wed, 2 Sep 2015 02:22:18 +0200
Robert Urban <urban@unix-beratung.de> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I wish you would consider adding a switch to ethtool (and the corresponding
> functionality) to produce output in machine-readable format.
> 
> This would be *extremely* useful.
> 
> Why not add the "--machine-readable" switch mentioned here:

Why not use json and --json flag like iproute2 tools are getting (gradually).

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