On Tue, Jan 03, 2017 at 03:05:27PM +0000, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Geert Stappers writes ("Re: Can we kill net-tools, please? (and this
> thread)"):
> > This e-mail is to request to leave this thread in the year 2016.
Happy New Year
> > We have concencus that the install priority of net-tools should be lowered.
>
> That has been done.
Yes
> > It doesn't matter what is "easy" with "ip" or with "ifconfig|route|arp"
> > It is important that we can let go net-tools.
>
> Unfortunately, bundled in with your request to leave the thread for
> 2016, was another message arguing that `ip' is easy. So your request
> is actually a request to have the last word.
:-)
> > |> 10: secondary inet 10.2.3.4/32 scope global secondary\ valid_lft
> > forever preferred_lft forever
> > |> 11: home inet 10.4.5.6/32 scope global home home\ valid_lft
> > forever preferred_lft forever
> > |>
> > |> How is a parser supposed to know which of these words are what ?
> >
> > The position of the words.
>
> Can you please provide a simple regexp or parser which, given a
> keyword like `secondary', `home', `scope', `valid_lft' or whatever,
> will tell whether that keyword is present and if so what (if any)
> value it has ?
>
> For example, something like this:
>
> sub extract_value_from_ip_o_addr_line ($$) {
> my ($line, $keyword) = @_;
> if ($line =~ m/ $keyword (\S+)/) {
> return $1;
> } else {
> return undef;
> }
> }
>
> Only without the many bugs.
>
>
This e-mail only to hand over the last word, please take it.
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