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. For example instead of typing: sysctl -a | grep dev.cpu.*.temperature
I could write: sysctl dev.cpu.*.temperature which would display all the OIDs that match dev.cpu.*.temperature. This is better than grep because when I issue a "sysctl -a" the program retrieves many variables that I am not interested in (which later get filtered by grep). This would in a way be similar to: sysctl dev.cpu which lists all the OIDs under dev.cpu. Is this a feature people would find useful? Or would I be optimising a problem that doesn't exist? Thanks for any input Andrew _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
