grep'ng for 'string' in bigip.conf

I have been inspired. Building off the pretty much every other poster in this thread, here's my not-exactly-a-one-liner solution:

  
  list() {  
    object=$1  
    pattern=$2  
    if [ -z "$2" ]; then  
      awk '/'^"$object"'/,/^}$/ {print}' /config/bigip{.conf,_base.conf}  
    else  
      for i in $(b $object list | awk 'BEGIN {RS="\n}"} /'"$pattern"'/ {print $2}'); do  
        awk '/'^"$object $i"'/,/^}$/ {print}' /config/bigip{.conf,_base.conf} 
      done  
    fi  
  }  
  

Put that at the bottom of the '/root/.bash_profile' file, then either logout and back in, or source the file with:

  
  source /root/.bash_profile  
  

After that you can either search for all objects of a certain type with:

list

Or you can search for the set of objects that contain a specific pattern with:

  
  list    
  

Your original example would work with:

  
  list virtual http-xff  
  

This isn't nearly as fast as Humphrey's perl script, and certainly not as fast as a good awk one-liner, but it's flexible, and it will work with patterns that are contained within an embedded block ({...}) in the object. One example would be trying to find all SSL vips that use a specific clientside profile, or all iRules that use a certain pool within an if/else, etc... I've tested it a bit, but I may have missed some condition that causes it to fail. If you catch something that I didn't, please let me know.

If your worried about losing your .bash_profile during an upgrade, you can copy this to a file and put that file in /shared/bin (the 'bin' sub-dir does not exist by default). Then add this to the bottom of your .bash_profile:

  
  source /path/to/file  
  

Actually, I keep all funtions like this in a file located in /shared/bin, then source that file from .bash_profile so everything is available on login. If I boot to the other partition all I need to do to get everything back is re-add the 'source' command to .bash_profile.

PS> I tried -a lot- to isolate the object name from within a single awk statement rather than resorting to calling bigpipe... it will take someone better than I to make it happen.

--jesse