2010/2/9 Dag-Erling Smørgrav <[email protected]>: > Andrew Brampton <[email protected]> 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. Shouldn't be too hard to implement either. If I get time I might submit a patch. Thanks Andrew _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
