martin f krafft wrote:
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.
# arp
Address HWtype HWaddress Flags Mask
Iface
192.168.1.34 ether 00:17:31:64:23:c5 C
eth0
192.168.1.254 ether 00:19:cb:43:af:b7 C
eth0
This looks pretty tabular to me.
And how to handle existing scripts that rely on this specific tabular
output?
those should hardly depend on column or terminal width.
So that doesn't have to be taken into account? Good.
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