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From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
To: Octavian Purdila <opurdila@ixiacom.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	Lucian Adrian Grijincu <lucian.grijincu@gmail.com>,
	Vlad Dogaru <ddvlad@rosedu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] iproute2: ip: add wilcard support for device matching
Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 08:18:46 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101210081846.58b67f09@nehalam> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1291993092-8675-1-git-send-email-opurdila@ixiacom.com>

On Fri, 10 Dec 2010 16:58:12 +0200
Octavian Purdila <opurdila@ixiacom.com> wrote:

> Allow the users to specify a wildcard when selecting a device:
> 
> $ ip set link dev dummy* up
> 
> We do this by expanding the original command line in multiple lines
> which we then feed via a pipe to a forked ip processed run in batch
> mode.
> 


Seems like feature creep. Can't you do this with bash completion
script instead.

  reply	other threads:[~2010-12-10 16:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-12-10 14:58 [PATCH] iproute2: ip: add wilcard support for device matching Octavian Purdila
2010-12-10 16:18 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2010-12-10 16:32   ` Eric Dumazet
2010-12-10 17:32     ` Octavian Purdila
2010-12-10 17:42       ` Eric Dumazet
2010-12-10 18:06         ` Octavian Purdila
2010-12-17 13:38           ` jamal
2010-12-19  9:32             ` Vlad Dogaru
2010-12-21 13:14               ` jamal
2011-01-08 21:10                 ` Philip Prindeville

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