On Wed, 31 Oct 2018 20:48:05 -0600, David Ahern wrote:
> > spacing with a special character in the format string, that is:
> >
> > "%S.%Qr.%Qs %Al:%Pl %Ar:%Pr %p\n"
> >
> > would mean "align everything to the right, distribute remaining
> > whitespace between %S, %Qr and %Qs". But it looks rather complicated
> > at a glance.
> >
>
> My concern here is that once this goes in for 1 command, the others in
> iproute2 need to follow suit - meaning same syntax style for all
> commands. Given that I'd prefer we get a reasonable consensus on syntax
> that will work across commands -- ss, ip, tc. If it is as simple as
> column names with a fixed order, that is fine but just give proper
> consideration given the impact.
FWIW I just started piping iproute2 commands to jq. Example:
tc -s -j qdisc show dev em1 | \
jq -r '.[] |
[.kind,.parent,.handle,.offloaded,.bytes,.packets,.drops,.overlimits,.requeues,.backlog,.qlen,.marked]
| @tsv'
JSONification would probably be quite an undertaking for ss :(
