Re: patern matching difficulties, in two cases

It would be a lot more accurate to write two different expressions, one for each OS and then just have your script check which OS it is running on and use the appropriate regex.

$sunifconfig=qr/blahblahblah/;
$linuxifconfig=qr/blahblahblah/;

if ($^O eq "linux"){
$ifconfigoutput=~/$linuxifconfig/;
}
else
{
$ifconfigoutput=~/$sunifconfig/;
}
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*That code is untested.

Fellow monks, I don't know if using the $^O ($OSNAME) variable is the right way to go here. Feel free to comment.

HTH

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Re: Re: patern matching difficulties, in two cases by waswas-fng (Curate) on Jun 24, 2003 at 18:58 UTC
Make sure you specify the full path to ifconfig as well, you will not that solaris has a few versions of it and they have different outputs. /sbin/ifconfig interface [ address_family ] [ address [ dest_address ] ] [ up ] [ down ] [ auto-revarp ] [ net- mask mask ] [ broadcast address ] [ metric n ] [ mtu n ] [trailers \| -trailers ] [private \| -private ] [arp \| -arp ] [ plumb ] [ unplumb ] /usr/sbin/ifconfig interface [ address_family ] [ address [ dest_address ] ] [ up ] [ down ] [ auto-revarp ] [ netmask mask ] [ broadcast address ] [ metric n ] [ mtu n ] [trailers \| -trailers ] [private \| -private ] [arp \| -arp ] [ plumb ] [ unplumb ] /sbin/ifconfig interface {auto-dhcp \| dhcp } [ primary ] [ wait seconds ] drop \| extend \| ping \| release \| start \| status /usr/sbin/ifconfig interface {auto-dhcp \| dhcp } [ pri- mary ] [ wait seconds ] drop \| extend \| ping \| release \| start \| status [download] -Waswas	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Re: Re: patern matching difficulties, in two cases by jcpunk (Friar) on Jun 24, 2003 at 19:14 UTC
thank you very much for that information, it is most helpful jcpunk by the way thanks for all the help that was, is, and will be	[reply]
Re: Re: patern matching difficulties, in two cases by jcpunk (Friar) on Jun 24, 2003 at 19:15 UTC
thank you for that idea, i did not know that the $^O existed, and i will definatly look into that jcpunk by the way thanks for all the help that was, is, and will be	[reply]