On Mon, 2017-02-27 at 10:55 -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > > Another alternative format would be to make -tree a output modifier and ident > (like ps tree options). > > $ ip -t link > 1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN mode > DEFAULT group default qlen 1 > link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00 > 8: bond0 <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state DOWN mode > DEFAULT group default qlen 1000 > link/ether 52:54:00:66:24:cd brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff > 2: eth1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast master bond0 > state DOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000 > link/ether 52:54:00:66:24:cd brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
OK, it looks better because the information is complete. I looked at several tree printing utilities and I like the lsblk format. But tabular format does not fit the ip-show well. I will try to indent the current ip-show output may be with fancy lines.