Options Desired - brief, oneline, color

[ddspell]

Frivolous cosmetic wants.

It would be nice to see the following options added: -brief List interfaces with brief network layer info: -o, -oneline output each record on a single line, replacing line feeds with the '\' character. This is convenient when you want to count records with wc(1) or to grep(1) the output. -c, -color Use color output.

Example 1

[root@localhost ~]# ip -brief -c -4 addr
lo               UNKNOWN        127.0.0.1/8
enp0s3           UP             192.168.1.180/24

In the example, UP is green and the addresses less the /size are magenta. At least on my terminal using a linux terminal type.

LS_COLORS=rs=0:di=01;34:ln=01;36:mh=00:pi=40;33:so=01;35:do=01;35:bd=40;33;01:cd=40;33;01:or=40;31;01:mi=01;05;37;41:su=37;41:sg=30;43:ca=30;41:tw=30;42:ow=34;42:st=37;44:ex=01;32:.tar=01;31:.tgz=01;31:.arc=01;31:.arj=01;31:.taz=01;31:.lha=01;31:.lz4=01;31:.lzh=01;31:.lzma=01;31:.tlz=01;31:.txz=01;31:.tzo=01;31:.t7z=01;31:.zip=01;31:.z=01;31:.Z=01;31:.dz=01;31:.gz=01;31:.lrz=01;31:.lz=01;31:.lzo=01;31:.xz=01;31:.bz2=01;31:.bz=01;31:.tbz=01;31:.tbz2=01;31:.tz=01;31:.deb=01;31:.rpm=01;31:.jar=01;31:.war=01;31:.ear=01;31:.sar=01;31:.rar=01;31:.alz=01;31:.ace=01;31:.zoo=01;31:.cpio=01;31:.7z=01;31:.rz=01;31:.cab=01;31:.jpg=01;35:.jpeg=01;35:.gif=01;35:.bmp=01;35:.pbm=01;35:.pgm=01;35:.ppm=01;35:.tga=01;35:.xbm=01;35:.xpm=01;35:.tif=01;35:.tiff=01;35:.png=01;35:.svg=01;35:.svgz=01;35:.mng=01;35:.pcx=01;35:.mov=01;35:.mpg=01;35:.mpeg=01;35:.m2v=01;35:.mkv=01;35:.webm=01;35:.ogm=01;35:.mp4=01;35:.m4v=01;35:.mp4v=01;35:.vob=01;35:.qt=01;35:.nuv=01;35:.wmv=01;35:.asf=01;35:.rm=01;35:.rmvb=01;35:.flc=01;35:.avi=01;35:.fli=01;35:.flv=01;35:.gl=01;35:.dl=01;35:.xcf=01;35:.xwd=01;35:.yuv=01;35:.cgm=01;35:.emf=01;35:.axv=01;35:.anx=01;35:.ogv=01;35:.ogx=01;35:.aac=01;36:.au=01;36:.flac=01;36:.mid=01;36:.midi=01;36:.mka=01;36:.mp3=01;36:.mpc=01;36:.ogg=01;36:.ra=01;36:.wav=01;36:.axa=01;36:.oga=01;36:.spx=01;36:*.xspf=01;36:

Example 2

[root@localhost ~]# ip -o -4 addr
1: lo    inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo\       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
2: enp0s3    inet 192.168.1.180/24 brd 192.168.1.255 scope global noprefixroute enp0s3\       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever

Thank you for considering.

[DarrylNixon]

+1 for --br / -brief. I can give it a look when I have a spare cycle.

Thanks to the author for the project. It saves me a bit of grief when rapidly swapping between Ubuntu and macOS.

[brona]

This one would be really cool, however to implement it is likely more tricky than it seems, the macos utilities don't seem to support colored outputs, so one has to come up with set of regexp to do the coloring and rewrite the outputs.

[steveo212]

+1 for --br / -brief. color is nice to have but brief would be a good feature

[Rexypoo]

+1 for -o / --oneline Not having this option makes scripting harder than it needs to be.

[leodbrs]

+1 for the --brief option

[Star-caorui]

+1 for the --brief option