From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: Jiri Benc <jbenc@redhat.com>
Cc: Felix Kaiser <felix.kaiser@fxkr.net>, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ip link/addr show: add empty line between interfaces
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2015 11:09:32 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150907110932.7687a913@urahara> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150907175411.491f9c96@griffin>
On Mon, 7 Sep 2015 17:54:11 +0200
Jiri Benc <jbenc@redhat.com> wrote:
> 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
>
Agreed with Jiri. I prefer the new shorter brief format, not longer format.
Did you ever try a system with 10 interfaces or 1000 tunnels??
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-09-07 18:09 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
2015-09-07 18:09 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2015-09-07 19:57 ` Felix Kaiser
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