From: Jerry Van Baren <gvb.uboot@gmail.com>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH] common: add a grepenv command
Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2010 23:32:10 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C4275BA.8000802@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100716154150.42ea44c9@schlenkerla.am.freescale.net>
On 07/16/2010 04:41 PM, Scott Wood wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Jul 2010 22:15:22 -0500
> Kim Phillips<kim.phillips@freescale.com> wrote:
>
>> u-boot environments, esp. when boards are shared across multiple users,
>> can get pretty large and time consuming to visually parse.
>> The grepenv command this patch adds can be used in lieu of printenv
>> to facilitate searching. grepenv works like printenv but limits its output
>> only to environment strings (variable name and value pairs) that match the
>> user specified substring.
>
> Since it doesn't actually handle regular expressions, I'd call it
> something like findenv. Or fgrepenv. :-)
>
> -Scott
Me too on "findenv". I don't like fgrepenv since it has the same
problem as "grepenv". It actually is a gssp (global substring print) :-P.
gvb
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-07-18 3:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-07-16 3:15 [U-Boot] [PATCH] common: add a grepenv command Kim Phillips
2010-07-16 9:27 ` Wolfgang Denk
2010-07-16 10:29 ` Reinhard Meyer
2010-07-16 10:55 ` Wolfgang Denk
2010-07-16 19:02 ` Kim Phillips
2010-07-16 19:13 ` Wolfgang Denk
2010-07-16 18:42 ` Kim Phillips
2010-07-16 19:12 ` Wolfgang Denk
2010-07-16 20:41 ` Scott Wood
2010-07-18 3:32 ` Jerry Van Baren [this message]
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