[157287] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: CLI Roadmap
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rodrick Brown)
Sun Oct 14 13:55:23 2012
From: Rodrick Brown <rodrick.brown@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CALb2afP+ESKi=58Tir88Cxt8Mvgg-1OWvHhkjLdsdhivQDsEqA@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2012 13:55:11 -0400
To: Kasper Adel <karim.adel@gmail.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Oct 14, 2012, at 1:42 PM, Kasper Adel <karim.adel@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have never used any CLI other than Cisco so i am curious what useful and
> creative knobs and bolts are available for other network appliance Vendors.
Eh??
>
> I guess what makes *NIX CLI/Shell so superior is that you can advanced
> stuff from the CLI using sed, awk and all the great tools there so maybe
> this is also one thing missing.
Unix philosophy says a program should do only one thing and do it
well. The Unix shell/CLI allows one to solve problems by sewing
together a sequence of small, specialized programs by piping the
output of a simple shell command to another shell command to solve
problems.
>
> Regards,
> Kim
