netdev - Re: Bad escapes in ip -online

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Date:   Thu, 7 Sep 2017 09:56:21 -0700
From:   Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
To:     John Kodis <john.m.kodis@...a.gov>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Bad escapes in ip -online

On Thu, 7 Sep 2017 12:08:56 -0400
John Kodis <john.m.kodis@...a.gov> wrote:

> The -online option to the 'ip link', 'ip addr', and perhaps others is 
> putting out a backslash in places where a newline character should go, 
> as so:
> 
> 1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN mode 
> DEFAULT group default qlen 1000\    link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 
> 00:00:00:00:00:00
> 
> -- John.
> 

The backslash is the virtual line separator in the one line format.
It is has always been that way, and programs parse the oneline output.