On Fri 15 Feb 2019 at 22:04:42 (+0000), Darac Marjal wrote: > If you're going to recommend parsing `ip`, the -j option may be more > amenable to scripting. (JSON output) > > On 15/02/2019 15:52, David Wright wrote: > > On Fri 15 Feb 2019 at 12:02:20 (+0100), Markus Schönhaber wrote: > >> Tony, 15.2.2019, 11:11:29 +0100: > >> > >>> Debian 9. I need to read my IPv6 address into a python script. ↑ Some of us here are still running stable (stretch) and older. So perhaps only for buster onwards and, I assume, stretch-backports. But …
> > [That's probably best if your destination is a Python program. ←snipped] > > Otherwise, for scripting, it's easy to overlook ip -o a > > which makes parsing much easier. (Sorry if I was expected to explicitly write "shell scripting".) … I don't think that JSON would be any help: rather, the opposite. Cheers, David.