also sprach Olaf van der Spek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008.10.20.1244 +0200]: > That's fine for machine readable output, but what about human readable > output?
That's debateable. I find e.g. 'ip route list' output far better than /sbin/route by now. The same applies to 'ip address list' vs. /sbin/ifconfig. /usr/sbin/arp was always non-tabular. > And how to handle existing scripts that rely on this specific tabular > output? those should hardly depend on column or terminal width. -- .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' : proud Debian developer, author, administrator, and user `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduck - http://debiansystem.info `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing systems "there was no difference between the behavior of a god and the operations of pure chance..." -- thomas pynchon, "gravity's rainbow"
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