On Thu, Dec 29, 2016 at 2:38 PM, Russ Allbery <r...@debian.org> wrote: > Also, this is not at all easy to parse: > > # ip -o address > 1: lo inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo\ valid_lft forever > preferred_lft forever > 1: lo inet6 ::1/128 scope host \ valid_lft forever preferred_lft > forever > 3: wlan0 inet 192.168.0.195/24 brd 192.168.0.255 scope global dynamic > wlan0\ valid_lft 598191sec preferred_lft 598191sec > 3: wlan0 inet6 fe80::a288:69ff:fe31:2b62/64 scope link \ valid_lft > forever preferred_lft forever > > The fields aren't labeled, you have to make a bunch of assumptions about > ordering, the backslash thing is just completely bizarre and makes the > parsing way harder (see the "lo\" on the first line)... this is really > rather dire.
i recently had to parse it (in particular, `ip -s -s -s -s -o link show up`) it's not that hard: split by \, remove the first line, remove any spurious other lines, then parse by line pairs: the first is the headers, the second the values, and so on (kinda OT but yeah a YAML/JSON/anything would have been better, but it's doable) -- Sandro "morph" Tosi My website: http://sandrotosi.me/ Me at Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/SandroTosi G+: https://plus.google.com/u/0/+SandroTosi
