On Mon, 2018-11-12 at 14:17 +0000, Rhodri James wrote: > On 12/11/2018 09:37, srinivasan wrote: > > Because the problem is every time when ever I see the output using the > > "nmcli c show", the below output is the weird output, so instead of > > connecting to SSID "NIFunkloch" it randomly connects to "NIFunkloch 1552" > > or sometimes to NIFunkloch 1000" or so on > > > > root:~/qa/robot_tests# nmcli c show > > NAME UUID TYPE DEVICE > > > > NIFunkloch 1552 c8e1e8c0-0f25-4299-a9ae-2910cfef2ebd wifi wlp1s0 > > > > Wired connection 1 2a14fbe6-58a0-3b7f-b986-5d1b36a94ec0 ethernet > > enp0s21f0u4 > > NIFunkloch 1da7d068-4548-4446-bf88-a440e49db1b1 wifi -- > > [snipped for brevity] > > That looks conveniently aligned. Can't you just slice each line to get > the entries you are after? >
I believe the idea is to allow the help seeker to piece the following puzzle together. $ nmcli -t NAME,SOMETHINGELSE c show >>> help(subprocess.Popen) >>> text.split(':') >>> aarrr.shiver_me(timbers) if "I am" in "the Bermuda triangle" else >>> help("where") -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list