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From: Pancho <Pancho.Jones@protonmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Useless Use Of Regexes
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2025 12:08:36 +0000
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On 3/24/25 22:59, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Mar 2025 21:48:26 +0000, Pancho wrote:
> 
>> On 3/24/25 20:34, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
> 
> Don’t forget the option of JSON-format output, for even easier processing
> in scripts than messing around with regexes.

Forget? That presumes I ever knew. Well maybe I did, nowadays, I forget 
what I have forgotten.

Anyway, JSON output looks cool. However, it doesn't seem to be common 
for other commands.