Excerpts from Stephen Hemminger's message of 2015-09-07 11:09:32 -0700:
> Agreed with Jiri. I prefer the new shorter brief format, not longer format.
As long as it requires extra typing, few are going to use it.
It's about the default.
Did you try the brief format with a few v6 addresses on an
in
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
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
Excerpts from Jiri Benc's message of 2015-09-07 14:46:09 +0200:
> Or makes the readability worse by requiring more scrolling, depending
> on number of interfaces you have and your taste.
Of course it's slightly subjective, but I think it improves readability
quite a bit *especially* on servers wit
On Sun, 6 Sep 2015 13:01:09 +0200, Felix Kaiser wrote:
> This improves the readability of the output.
Or makes the readability worse by requiring more scrolling, depending
on number of interfaces you have and your taste. Many users prefer the
current format.
Also, as sad as it is, there are scri
This improves the readability of the output.
Signed-off-by: Felix Kaiser
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ip/ip_common.h | 3 ++-
ip/ipaddress.c | 11 +--
ip/iplink.c| 2 +-
ip/ipmonitor.c | 2 +-
4 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/ip/ip_common.h b/ip/ip_common.h
index f74face..c3
