On Tue, Dec 09, 2014 at 10:00:53AM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > On Fri, Dec 05, 2014 at 01:02:17PM -0500, Laine Stump wrote: > > One person suggested creating an augeas variable whose value was the > > contents of intf, then referencing that variable in the path sent to > > aug_match(); unfortunately, having a path string like this: > > > > /files/sys/class/net/$interface/address/content > > > > seems to never work. For that matter, defining a variable that contains > > the entire path, then calling aug_get(aug, "$interface", &mac) doesn't > > even do what I want - variable substitution does work when the *entire > > path string* is "$variableName", but the xpath-like evaluation still > > takes place, so the special characters are still interpreted and acted on. > > Reading the documentation for aug_defvar it seems that I was wrong > about how that works. It parses and evaluates the path parameter. > > However it would be nice to make this work, so I propose: > > aug_defconst (aug, const char *name, const char *value); > > Instead of evaluating the 'value', this would simply add > (name, T_STRING value) to aug->symtab, thus doing no parsing > and requiring no escaping. > > I'll see if I can implement something like this and if it works ...
Or I would do if the Augeas/pathx code didn't make my head hurt. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com libguestfs lets you edit virtual machines. Supports shell scripting, bindings from many languages. http://libguestfs.org _______________________________________________ augeas-devel mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/augeas-devel
