Re: v4/v6 packet length printing inconsistency

[Guy Harris <gharris () sonic net>]

On Jun 30, 2025, at 7:46 AM, Denis Ovsienko <denis () ovsienko info> wrote:

> 1: https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump/issues/810

To quote a comment I added to that issue:

> > Personally, I'd prefer a single line of output for easy parsing.
>
>
> At one point, so did Apple, so they added a `-g` ("g" for "greppable") flag to remove that newline.
>
> For some unknown reason, Apple's change to print-ip.c wasn't preserved as they upgraded to newer versions of 
> tcpdump.org tcpdump, so that flag is now a no-op, even though it's documented.
>
> Perhaps we should implement that flag.

...and, if we do, and we split the lines in verbose mode for IPv6, the -g/--ip-oneline flag would apply both to IPv4 
and IPv6.
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