Re: Useless Use Of Regexes

Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

On Mon, 24 Mar 2025 21:48:26 +0000, Pancho wrote:
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On 3/24/25 20:34, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
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which can be more easily written using features built into iproute2
itself:
 
     ip addr show to 192.168.1.0/24

 
Seriously, though, it is often easier to filter output from a standard
command with grep, than it is to learn all the command flags.

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Don’t forget the option of JSON-format output, for even easier processing
in scripts than messing around with regexes.

I'd prefer a regexp over jq any time. But that's probably wrong.

N.B.: ip addr --oneline

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