netdev - Re: iproute2 - one line mode should be deprecated?

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Message-ID: <CAA93jw56DJKuP+yVim4Hq8UJs9gMJgew_4czNNW+obL3WZ7puA@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Fri, 9 Dec 2022 10:16:51 -0800
From:   Dave Taht <dave.taht@...il.com>
To:     Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
Cc:     David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: iproute2 - one line mode should be deprecated?

I'm terribly old-fashioned myself and still use one-line mode, and the
kinds of scripts I use still use awk. I may be the last one standing
here...

On Fri, Dec 9, 2022 at 10:15 AM Stephen Hemminger
<stephen@...workplumber.org> wrote:
>
> The one line output mode of iproute2 commands was invented before I was involved.
> It looks like the only real usage is for scripts to consume the output of commands.
> Now that JSON is supported, the one line mode is just lingering technical debt.
>
> Does anyone still use oneline mode?
> Could it be removed in some future version of iproute?
>
> There are still output format bugs in oneline, and some missing bits
> of JSON support as well.

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