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" <t...@tsdye.com> writes: > Aloha Bart, > "Bart Bunting" <b...@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
