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Re: [O] Some advice on how to use babel to generate cisco configs
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Karl Voit |
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Re: [O] Some advice on how to use babel to generate cisco configs |
Date: |
Thu, 31 Jan 2013 10:50:32 +0100 |
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* Bart Bunting <address@hidden> 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.
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Karl Voit