* Some advice on how to use babel to generate cisco configs
@ 2013-01-30 22:24 Bart Bunting
2013-01-31 9:50 ` Karl Voit
2013-01-31 11:44 ` Thomas S. Dye
0 siblings, 2 replies; 5+ messages in thread
From: Bart Bunting @ 2013-01-30 22:24 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-orgmode
Good morning,
I have been trying to figure out without much luck how to use babel to
generate some cisco configs.
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.
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.
Hope that ramble made some sort of sence.
Can someone give me some ideas on how to put this together?
I tried to use an org source block and a shell function to parse it. I
couldn't quite tie together how to get the output to work correctly or
how to be able to parse each line....
Kind regards
Bart
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Kind regards
Bart
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* Re: Some advice on how to use babel to generate cisco configs
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
2013-01-31 11:44 ` Thomas S. Dye
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From: Karl Voit @ 2013-01-31 9:50 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-orgmode
* 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
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* Re: Some advice on how to use babel to generate cisco configs
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
@ 2013-01-31 11:44 ` Thomas S. Dye
2013-02-01 8:10 ` Bart Bunting
1 sibling, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread
From: Thomas S. Dye @ 2013-01-31 11:44 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Bart Bunting; +Cc: emacs-orgmode
Aloha Bart,
"Bart Bunting" <bart@bunting.net.au> writes:
> Good morning,
>
> I have been trying to figure out without much luck how to use babel to
> generate some cisco configs.
>
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> Hope that ramble made some sort of sence.
I don't know a Cisco config from a fig newton, but here is my sense of
what you wrote, in case it is helpful.
#+name: cisco-table
| 1 | one | two |
| 2 | three | four |
| 3 | five | six |
#+header: :results output raw
#+header: :var x=cisco-table
#+begin_src python
for y in x:
s = "* Cisco %s \nTwiddle %s, poke %s \n\n" % tuple(y)
print s,
#+end_src
#+results:
* Cisco 1
Twiddle one, poke two
* Cisco 2
Twiddle three, poke four
* Cisco 3
Twiddle five, poke six
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Thomas S. Dye
http://www.tsdye.com
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* Re: Some advice on how to use babel to generate cisco configs
2013-01-31 11:44 ` Thomas S. Dye
@ 2013-02-01 8:10 ` Bart Bunting
2013-02-01 15:34 ` Thomas S. Dye
0 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread
From: Bart Bunting @ 2013-02-01 8:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Thomas S. Dye; +Cc: emacs-orgmode
Thomas,
Thanks! That is pretty much what I was struggling with.
Thanks for putting it together for me.
The only other question I have is, is there a way to prevent the results
from appending each time?
Cheers
Bart
"Thomas S. Dye" <tsd@tsdye.com> writes:
> Aloha Bart,
> "Bart Bunting" <bart@bunting.net.au> writes:
>
>> Good morning,
>>
>> I have been trying to figure out without much luck how to use babel to
>> generate some cisco configs.
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> Hope that ramble made some sort of sence.
>
> I don't know a Cisco config from a fig newton, but here is my sense of
> what you wrote, in case it is helpful.
>
> #+name: cisco-table
> | 1 | one | two |
> | 2 | three | four |
> | 3 | five | six |
>
> #+header: :results output raw
> #+header: :var x=cisco-table
> #+begin_src python
> for y in x:
> s = "* Cisco %s \nTwiddle %s, poke %s \n\n" % tuple(y)
> print s,
> #+end_src
>
> #+results:
> * Cisco 1
> Twiddle one, poke two
>
> * Cisco 2
> Twiddle three, poke four
>
> * Cisco 3
> Twiddle five, poke six
>
> --
> Thomas S. Dye
> http://www.tsdye.com
Bart
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Kind regards
Bart
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* Re: Some advice on how to use babel to generate cisco configs
2013-02-01 8:10 ` Bart Bunting
@ 2013-02-01 15:34 ` Thomas S. Dye
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From: Thomas S. Dye @ 2013-02-01 15:34 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Bart Bunting; +Cc: emacs-orgmode
"Bart Bunting" <bart@bunting.net.au> writes:
> Thomas,
>
> Thanks! That is pretty much what I was struggling with.
Good news. I'm happy it's starting to work for you.
>
> Thanks for putting it together for me.
>
> The only other question I have is, is there a way to prevent the results
> from appending each time?
See the manual, 14.8.2.2 :results. You probably want :results replace.
All the best,
Tom
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