> On May 24, 2017(21), at 21:23, Michael Richardson <m...@sandelman.ca> wrote:
>
> Guy Harris <g...@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
>>> Guy Harris <g...@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Note that macOS's tcpdump has a -g flag ("g" for "greppable", more
>>>> greppable output being the purpose of the flag), which puts the IPv4
>>>> input back on one line:
>>>
>>> How can we move to this format?
>
>> To make that the default and only format, we'd just have to turn
>
> Yes... but are we going to screw people over with this change?
Most likely yes.
>> To add support for the -g flag, we'd just make that conditional at run time,
>> with a gflag field in the netdissect_options field.
>
> I'm thinking, can we just make it the default?
It is likely that textual output is being parsed by scripts in many many
places. Those scripts may not work properly anymore when you change the
default.
I think that it is best to keep the current behaviour and make the output that
is easier parsable optional with the -g flag.
— Arien
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