There are real reasons for Linux to replace ifconfig, netstat, etc

Re:There are real reasons for Linux to replace ifconfig, net... by Izkata on Friday May 25, 2018 @08:15AM (#17152815)

That just shows its user-unfriendliness further. Here's a more readable version of the output:

> ip route | column -t

(With iproute2 4.3.0, I get the same output between "route", "route show", and "route show default"; no idea if it's changed since.)

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Re:There are real reasons for Linux to replace ifconfig, net... by lomnakkus on Friday May 25, 2018 @04:33PM (#17157685)

Wow. That's actually kind of a tiny little brilliant gem that remains to be discovered by many. I, for one, had never though about trying this.

Alas it doesn't work quite so well for "ip addr". It would have been great if they'd just decided on CSV or JSON or whatever and then relied on secondary utilities to go to "pretty-printed".

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Re:There are real reasons for Linux to replace ifconfig, net... by Izkata on Saturday May 26, 2018 @02:45AM (#17160581)

Somewhere else in here, someone else mentioned that "ip" has "--oneline", which does seem to work decently, at least for the first couple columns:

   ip --oneline addr | column -t

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