From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Hemminger Subject: Re: [PATCH] ip link/addr show: add empty line between interfaces Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2015 11:09:32 -0700 Message-ID: <20150907110932.7687a913@urahara> References: <1441537269-13899-1-git-send-email-felix.kaiser@fxkr.net> <20150907144609.3ec9f4d0@griffin> <1441639971-sup-8473@zero> <20150907175411.491f9c96@griffin> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Felix Kaiser , netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Jiri Benc Return-path: Received: from mail-pa0-f54.google.com ([209.85.220.54]:35911 "EHLO mail-pa0-f54.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750936AbbIGSJW (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Sep 2015 14:09:22 -0400 Received: by padhk3 with SMTP id hk3so17166173pad.3 for ; Mon, 07 Sep 2015 11:09:22 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20150907175411.491f9c96@griffin> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, 7 Sep 2015 17:54:11 +0200 Jiri Benc 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??