I got tired of typing hostname so came up with this little tweak. Now
atleast I have some tab completion.
Maybe useful for some ? Do you have a differnt approach ?
Regards,
Frans
# cd /etc/interface/
# ls -la
total 12
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Jun 2 19:51 .
drwxr-xr-x 23 root wheel 1536 Jun 2 19:42 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 144 Jun 2 19:47 .mklink
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 21 Jun 2 19:47 bridge0 -> /etc/hostname.bridge0
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 21 Jun 2 19:47 vether0 -> /etc/hostname.vether0
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 23 Jun 2 19:47 vether247 ->
/etc/hostname.vether247
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 22 Jun 2 19:47 vlan2470 -> /etc/hostname.vlan2470
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 18 Jun 2 19:47 vmx0 -> /etc/hostname.vmx0
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 18 Jun 2 19:47 vmx1 -> /etc/hostname.vmx1
#
# cat .mklink
#!/bin/sh
interfaces=`ls -1 /etc |grep "hostname.*" | sed 's/hostname\.//g' `
for int in $interfaces; do
ln -s /etc/hostname.$int $int
done
# vi /etc/interface/
bridge0 vether0 vether247 vlan2470 vmx0 vmx1
# vi /etc/interface/v
vether0 vether247 vlan2470 vmx0 vmx1
# vi /etc/interface/vether
vether0 vether247
# vi /etc/interface/vether247
