textfsm – Python module for parsing semi-structured text into Python tables

http://code.google.com/p/textfsm/

by hypnotist • 13 years ago

45 5 13 years ago

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imurray• 13 years ago

Quick link into the introductory documentation: http://code.google.com/p/textfsm/wiki/TextFSMHowto — one specifies a state machine in a text template file that can include regexes and has a simple "->" syntax for state transitions.

mjburgess• 13 years ago

clitable

I'm sure im not the only one that misread that.

andrewcooke• 13 years ago

INTO TABLES should be added to the title, because otherwise it's not clear how this differs from expect.

to save others time - you could use it parsing things like the output from smartctl, or ifconfig.

hypnotist• 13 years ago

you're right. But there is limitation on the title - 80 chars.

agrover• 13 years ago

On one hand, cool! On the other hand, uncool, if it encourages more people to have their programs interact with other programs via CLI parsing. We should be using APIs and libraries instead of working around the lack of them.

textfsm – Python module for parsing semi-structured text into Python tables

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