Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 23:28:53 +0000 From: Andrew Brampton <brampton+freebsd@gmail.com> To: =?UTF-8?Q?Dag=2DErling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sysctl with regex? Message-ID: <d41814901002091528i4884987cmb7347dfe4d50bdc5@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <86tytqvwky.fsf@ds4.des.no> References: <d41814901002091308s7e894b55p880bde165bbbe703@mail.gmail.com> <86tytqvwky.fsf@ds4.des.no>
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2010/2/9 Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav <des@des.no>: > Andrew Brampton <brampton+freebsd@gmail.com> writes: >> Today I was writing a script to read all the dev.cpu.?.temperature >> sysctl OIDs. I was parsing them using a simple grep, but it occurred >> to me it might be better if sysctl supported some form of regexp. > > You mean glob, not regexp... Could you explain why do I mean glob instead or regexp? Is glob simple matches, ie * and ? and regexp more complex like [a-z]* >> For example instead of typing: >> sysctl -a | grep dev.cpu.*.temperature >> >> I could write: >> sysctl dev.cpu.*.temperature > > Sounds like a good idea. =C2=A0Shouldn't be too hard to implement either. If I get time I might submit a patch. Thanks Andrew
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