$ ./cfg d1 I standby 12345678901 foo-6000-1 12 J 15 M12345678V 98765432101 25 baz-6000-1-1 26 baz-6000-2-1 esp foo-6000-2 foo-6000-3
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# outputs hundreds of lines of configuration commands
# for backend systems that don't have scripting native 
# to their CLI
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if the others are lucky, they cut-n-paste-n-modify
some snippets:

$ perl -e 'for(1..48){printf"somecmd %s $_ X0000000%02X auto$/","foo-6000-1",$_' | backend