From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jiri Benc Subject: Re: [PATCH] ip link/addr show: add empty line between interfaces Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2015 17:54:11 +0200 Message-ID: <20150907175411.491f9c96@griffin> References: <1441537269-13899-1-git-send-email-felix.kaiser@fxkr.net> <20150907144609.3ec9f4d0@griffin> <1441639971-sup-8473@zero> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Felix Kaiser Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:53106 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751283AbbIGPyP (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Sep 2015 11:54:15 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1441639971-sup-8473@zero> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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