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From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Subject: Re: [nftables PATCH] rule: display rule handle as comment
Date: Tue, 21 May 2013 15:53:28 +0200
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Hi Eric,

On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 01:09:00AM +0200, Eric Leblond wrote:
> Knowing the rule handle is necessary to be able to delete a single
> rule. It was not displayed till now in the output and it was thus
> impossible to remove a single rule.
> This patch modify the listing output to add a comment containing
> the handle.

Thanks for the patch.

Could you add some option, eg. -a/--handle, so the handle is shown
only if we invoke:

nft -a list table filter

We also support:

nft list table filter > rule-set-file
nft -f rule-set-file

And the handle number will not be of any use there.