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bradvoth_189339
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Mar 05, 2015

iRule development

I'm currently running into issues with iRule development where I get a TCL error when running a CRYPTO::decrypt command. The command itself is largely irrelevant to this question. Basically is ther...
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JoshBecigneul
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Mar 05, 2015

I recommend checking out the iRule editor. It may be able to help you with the problem. https://devcentral.f5.com/d/irule-editor I'll admit that I haven't used it much, so I'm not 100% sure it can do what you are after.

Unfortunately there is no built-in interactive TCL shell (that I know of).

One option that may be a bit easier to bear with is using the edit command.

edit ltm rule MyiRule

Running this command will execute the vim editor, editing a temporary version of the irule. It will catch compilation errors and give you the option to re-edit the file.