On Thu, 7 Sep 2017 12:08:56 -0400 John Kodis <john.m.ko...@nasa.gov> wrote:
> The -online option to the 'ip link', 'ip addr', and perhaps others is > putting out a backslash in places where a newline character should go, > as so: > > 1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN mode > DEFAULT group default qlen 1000\ link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd > 00:00:00:00:00:00 > > -- John. > The backslash is the virtual line separator in the one line format. It is has always been that way, and programs parse the oneline output.
