Bug#1030733: shorewall: "shorewall6 start" gives bash error message: "[: 64: unexpected operator" if "ip addr show" has "metric" information

[Romain Francoise]

On Sat, Feb 11, 2023 at 03:37:00PM +0000, Jeremy Sowden wrote:
> My inclination is just to use awk to pick out the second field.  For
> example,
>
>   $ ip -f inet6 addr show dev lo | awk '$1 == "inet6" { print $2 }'
>   ::1/128

Yes. Although all this parsing of `ip' output is fraught with danger,
ideally Shorewall would use the JSON version (but that requires a
dependency on `jq' or similar)...

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