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craig_m_254946
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Jun 28, 2018

How to list VIPs and associated Pool members?

I have several F5 devices running versions 11.4.1 HF3 to 11.6.1 HF2.   I found other similar questions that have been answered, but the commands don't seem to work with these versions.   My cus...
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Jate00
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Sep 11, 2019

This may not be the place to ask, but can you tell me what the pipe character enclosed in the quoted sting does?

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Nathan_F__F5_
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Sep 13, 2019

Hi Jate00,

 

I did not write the command but I may be able to help. Are you referring to the pipe character that sits between "Virtual Server:" and "Destination" for example? If you are then I believe that pipe is basically just telling the grep command to search for each of those strings individually.

 

For example, with the pipe between "Virtual Server:" and "Destination" grep knows to search for "Virtual Server:" and "Destination" separately. Without the pipe between them grep would be searching for "Virtual Server: Destination" as if it were one string instead of two and would not find a match because there is no string that matches "Virtual Server: Destination".

 

-Nathan F