iptables --list-rules command
Adds iptables --list-rules (-S) command, acting as a combination of
iptables --list and iptables-save.
The primary motivation behind this patch is to get iptables-save like
output capabilities in iptables-restore, allowing "iptables-restore -n"
to be used as a consistent API to iptables for all kind of operations,
not only blind updates..
As a bonus iptables also gets the capability of printing the rules
as-is.
This completely replaces the earlier patch which added the --rules
option.
Henrik Nordstrom <henrik@henriknordstrom.net>
diff --git a/iptables.8.in b/iptables.8.in
index 8ebedb8..0b945cb 100644
--- a/iptables.8.in
+++ b/iptables.8.in
@@ -205,6 +205,11 @@
iptables -L -v
.fi
.TP
+.BR "-S, --list-rules " "[\fIchain\fP]"
+Print all rules in the selected chain. If no chain is selected, all
+chains are printed like iptables-save. Like every other iptables command,
+it applies to the specified table (filter is the default).
+.TP
.BR "-F, --flush " "[\fIchain\fP]"
Flush the selected chain (all the chains in the table if none is given).
This is equivalent to deleting all the rules one by one.