netdev - Re: iproute2 ss: Some thoughts about additional info output layout

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Date:	Wed, 14 Jan 2015 14:55:56 -0800
From:	Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
To:	Vadim Kochan <vadim4j@...il.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: iproute2 ss: Some thoughts about additional info output layout

On Fri, 9 Jan 2015 00:12:40 +0200
Vadim Kochan <vadim4j@...il.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I think that current output of ss utility visually looks little weird
> when additional info options were specified, so I feel that a lot of
> yours will say that it will break existing scripts of ss output parsing
> but I will try, so thats how I think ss output would looks better in
> case if additionally info options were specified (I am not sure how it
> would looks in the email) :

The current output is pretty much unparseable for options with ss.
For a parseable output generating JSON would be much better, I did that for
a couple of utilities.

I see no problem with having a better human format.

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