[augeas-devel] Re: Difference between API's aug_match and augtool's match

[Free Ekanayaka]

Hi Raphaël,

|--==> On Thu, 4 Sep 2008 14:29:36 +0200, "Raphaël Pinson" <raphink at gmail.com> said:

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  RP> In essence, the match command in augtool does first a aug_match call, and
  RP> then goes through the results and does an aug_get on each node and checks
  RP> that the value matches the given (optional) string (it would actually be
  RP> interesting if augtool accepted a regexp as a filter by the way).

  RP> This cannot be added to the API without modifying the API, which is not
  RP> acceptable, so you'd have to either rewrite what cmd_match does in your
  RP> program, or make a new API call (e.g. aug_match_filter) that would do this.

I think such a new API call would be very useful.

Ciao,

Free