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From: Octavian Purdila <opurdila@ixiacom.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] iproute2: ip: add wilcard support for device matching
Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 19:32:59 +0200
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=46rom: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Date: Friday 10 December 2010, 18:32:20

> Le vendredi 10 d=E9cembre 2010 =E0 08:18 -0800, Stephen Hemminger a =E9=
crit :
> > On Fri, 10 Dec 2010 16:58:12 +0200
> >=20
> > Octavian Purdila <opurdila@ixiacom.com> wrote:
> > > Allow the users to specify a wildcard when selecting a device:
> > >=20
> > > $ ip set link dev dummy* up
> > >=20
> > > We do this by expanding the original command line in multiple lin=
es
> > > which we then feed via a pipe to a forked ip processed run in bat=
ch
> > > mode.
> >=20
> > Seems like feature creep. Can't you do this with bash completion
> > script instead.

This feature would make my life easier so to me its just a nice feature=
  :)=20
Sure I can do it as a bash completion script but:

- bash does not run everywhere

- having it in iproute would make it available to everyone

- its userspace so the price to pay for a few more lines of code for us=
ability=20
seems reasonable

- I don't know how scalable you can make the bash completion script

> furthermore, "*" is allowed in a device name
>=20
> ip link add link bond0 "vlan*" txqueuelen 100 type vlan id 999
>=20

Would allowing escaping it fix the issue? Like:

ip link add link bond0 "vlan\*" txqueuelen 100 type vlan id 999