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From: "Bart Bunting" <bart@bunting.net.au>
To: "Thomas S. Dye" <tsd@tsdye.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Some advice on how to use babel to generate cisco configs
Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2013 19:10:06 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2622ccv4x.fsf@ursys.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1k3qtlgp2.fsf@poto.westell.com>

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
-- 


Kind regards

Bart

next prev parent reply	other threads:[~2013-02-01 10:44 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
2013-01-31 11:44 ` Thomas S. Dye
2013-02-01  8:10   ` Bart Bunting [this message]
2013-02-01 15:34     ` Thomas S. Dye

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