Bug#254243: (no subject)

[Olaf van der Spek]

martin f krafft wrote:
> also sprach Olaf van der Spek <Olaf at XWIS.Net> [2008.10.20.1244 +0200]:
>> That's fine for machine readable output, but what about human readable  
>> output?
> 
> That's debateable. I find e.g. 'ip route list' output far better
> than /sbin/route by now. The same applies to 'ip address list' vs.
> /sbin/ifconfig. /usr/sbin/arp was always non-tabular.

# arp
Address                  HWtype  HWaddress           Flags Mask 
    Iface
192.168.1.34             ether   00:17:31:64:23:c5   C 
    eth0
192.168.1.254            ether   00:19:cb:43:af:b7   C 
    eth0

This looks pretty tabular to me.

>> And how to handle existing scripts that rely on this specific tabular  
>> output?
> 
> those should hardly depend on column or terminal width.

So that doesn't have to be taken into account? Good.