netdev - Re: [PATCH] iproute2: ip: add wilcard support for device matching

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Date:	Fri, 10 Dec 2010 08:18:46 -0800
From:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
To:	Octavian Purdila <opurdila@...acom.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Lucian Adrian Grijincu <lucian.grijincu@...il.com>,
	Vlad Dogaru <ddvlad@...edu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] iproute2: ip: add wilcard support for device matching

On Fri, 10 Dec 2010 16:58:12 +0200
Octavian Purdila <opurdila@...acom.com> wrote:

> Allow the users to specify a wildcard when selecting a device:
> 
> $ ip set link dev dummy* up
> 
> We do this by expanding the original command line in multiple lines
> which we then feed via a pipe to a forked ip processed run in batch
> mode.
> 


Seems like feature creep. Can't you do this with bash completion
script instead.
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