> I agree that it's important for some important health checks, but I
 > think it's much more important that the the default output of dladm
 > makes the best use of the available screen width without being reduced
 > to illegible constraints. 

Simply improving the output format to not repeat the field name on each
line will go a long ways to that :-)

 > In other words, I'd very much like to have a "show me everything you
 > know in multi-line format" option, so that when someone is reporting a
 > problem, we can just say "use -v and send us the output."
 > 
 > The problem with "-o" for everything is that users end up having to
 > deal with differing versions (with and without particular elements)
 > and reading the man page endlessly to use something that ought to be
 > "simple."

I recall having this discussion a little while back -- "-o all" doesn't
seem complicated to me, but having a "-v" alias for it should be fine too.
Would that address your concern?

-- 
meem
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