In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Sheldon Hearn writes:
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>On 07 May 2001 18:51:22 +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
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>> Yes it will, with -X.  The interesting question is why there isn't an
>> option to make it display just one variable in hex, and why it doesn't
>> print a message when it omits printing an opaque variable.
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>Do you think it'd be okay to allow an argument to -a and -A that
>specifies the sysctl node from which to descend?

You mean like

        # sysctl vfs.devfs
        vfs.devfs.noverflow: 32768
        vfs.devfs.generation: 116
        vfs.devfs.inodes: 116
        vfs.devfs.topinode: 118

:-)

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