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From: Karl Voit <devnull@Karl-Voit.at>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Some advice on how to use babel to generate cisco configs
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2013 10:50:32 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2013-01-31T10-48-36@devnull.Karl-Voit.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m2liba9uno.fsf@ursys.com.au

* Bart Bunting <bart@bunting.net.au> wrote:
> Good morning,

Hi!

> What I would like to achieve is to have a table containing a few values,
> e.g. ip address vlan number etc.
>
> Then have a cisco config in the org file with markers where the
> substitutions are to be inserted.
> Run through the table and create a node in the org file one for each row
> of the table.

Are you planning to use this as a one-time creation thing or do you
want to re-run (and re-generate) the configs from the same table
multiple times?

> The end result should be a set of cisco configs with the substitutions
> made.  I was hoping to also use shell to call pwgen to generate a
> random password to insert.

If it is one-time only, you might be happy using a yasnippet
template which generates your substitutions.

-- 
Karl Voit

  reply	other threads:[~2013-01-31  9:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-01-30 22:24 Some advice on how to use babel to generate cisco configs Bart Bunting
2013-01-31  9:50 ` Karl Voit [this message]
2013-01-31 11:44 ` Thomas S. Dye
2013-02-01  8:10   ` Bart Bunting
2013-02-01 15:34     ` Thomas S. Dye

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