On (01/23/09 12:09), Dave Miner wrote: >> yes, the -p option will be supported. But I'm not sure what you have >> in mind, when you speak of the need for filtering options- could >> you please clarify? >> > > At a minimum, the protocol selection, which is -P in other subcommands. > Probably the lnum as well. I'd think about providing a way to show by > address, rather than just interface name, too. Perhaps others.
But the idea of having parseable output is to allow the user to reliably pipe the output to programs like grep that can then print the filtered output. So while I agree that -P would be useful, I'm not sure about lnum/interface name and others.. --Sowmini
