Re: Bad escapes in ip -online
From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Date: 2017-09-07 16:56:29
On Thu, 7 Sep 2017 12:08:56 -0400 John Kodis [off-list ref] wrote:
The -online option to the 'ip link', 'ip addr', and perhaps others is putting out a backslash in places where a newline character should go, as so: 1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000\ link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00 -- John.
The backslash is the virtual line separator in the one line format. It is has always been that way, and programs parse the oneline output.