Bug 217815
| Summary: | ifconfig wrap around line not indented | ||
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| Product: | Base System | Reporter: | joeb1 |
| Component: | bin | Assignee: | freebsd-net (Nobody) <net> |
| Status: | Closed Not Accepted | ||
| Severity: | Affects Many People | CC: | melifaro |
| Priority: | --- | ||
| Version: | 11.0-RELEASE | ||
| Hardware: | Any | ||
| OS: | Any | ||
I agree it would be nice to see the indented options, when looking in the long-list capabilities in a small shell window. Unfortunately, I don't see how it can be implemented in a compatible fashion. Tons of scripts assume ifconfig(8) has specific output format and splitting options flag into multiple lines would cause the breakage for some users. Given I don't see any reasonable way forward, I'll probably have to close it in a ~week timeframe. Please do reply if you can think of any way that would improve the visual representation while preserving compatibility. I'm going to close this one. Please do reopen if you have an idea of representing the suggested change in a way compatible with the existing scripts. |
Some network devices have a long list of options and when ifconfig lists them the line wraps around to position one instead of being indented. An example follows. /root >ifconfig -a em0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500 options=4019b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM,TSO4,VLA N_HWTSO> ether d0:50:99:93:75:98 inet 7x.14x.8x.7x netmask 0xfffffc00 broadcast 255.255.255.255 nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL> media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>) status: active vge0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500 options=389b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM,WOL_UCAST ,WOL_MCAST,WOL_MAGIC> ether 10:00:60:21:00:93 inet 10.0.10.2 netmask 0xff000000 broadcast 10.255.255.255 nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL> media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>) status: active Need to change ifconfig to check print line length to see if the content exceeds the max line size, and if so take the remaining content and print it on a new indented line so it looks nice.